On a Geometric Extremum Problem

J. Schaer; A. Meir

doi:10.4153/CMB-1965-004-x

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The following problem was brought to our attention by L. Moser: Locate eight points in the closed unit square so that the minimum of the distances between any two of the points should be as large as possible.

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