Point on sphere greatest distance from given points
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- Subject: [mg104054] Point on sphere greatest distance from given points
- From: Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:02:46 -0400 (EDT)
How can I use Mathematica to solve this problem:
Given n points on a sphere, I want to find a point x such that:
Sum[distance[x,i],{i,1,n}]
is maximal, where "distance" is spherical ("great circle") distance.
In other words, I want to find the point x "furthest" from the given n points.
Is there any chance x will coincide with one of the given points? If
so, is there a better notion of distance to use?
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