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Old November 28th, 2008, 01:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Moo View Post
What are diam and k-cell ?
In a metric space

{\rm{diam}}(E)=\sup_{a,b \in E}d(a,b),

that is it is the diameter of the set E (where d(a,b) is the "distance from a to b, that is d is the metric).

Now my guess is that k and n are supposed to be the same thing, but who am I to say.

What supprises me is that with the level of clarity of the statement of this problem Mathstud28 got any solutions let alone one correct but more complicated ( ) than what he thought was needed.

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