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A fast heuristic for approximating the minimum weight triangulation

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Levcopoulos, C., Krznaric, D. (1996). A fast heuristic for approximating the minimum weight triangulation. In: Karlsson, R., Lingas, A. (eds) Algorithm Theory — SWAT'96. SWAT 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1097. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61422-2_140

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