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A157650
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Number of minimum geometric construction etches with compass and straight-edge to find the centroid of n points.
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0
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0, 4, 9, 12, 19, 21, 28, 28, 36, 38, 46, 45
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OFFSET
| 1,2
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REFERENCES
| Archimedes, On the equilibrium of planes, 287 BC-212 BC (Proposition 4, Book I).
Tom A. Apostol and Mamikon A. Mnastakanian, Finding centroids the easy way, Math Horizons, September (2000), 7-12
Jason E. Shields, Archimedes Lemma Variation, February 13, 2009 (unpublished)
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LINKS
| Tom A. Apostol and Mamikon A. Mnastakanian, Finding Centroids The Easy Way
Jason E. Shields, Archimedes Lemma Variation
Wikipedia, Archimedes
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EXAMPLE
| For n=4, the minimum number of geometric etches to find the centroid of 4 points is 12.
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CROSSREFS
| Sequence in context: A060687 A181023 A084789 * A119640 A186130 A051233
Adjacent sequences: A157647 A157648 A157649 * A157651 A157652 A157653
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KEYWORD
| nonn
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AUTHOR
| Jason Shields (bqllpd(AT)gmail.com), Mar 03 2009, Mar 13 2009
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