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So I am trying to teach myself discrete geometry and have started with the centerpoint problem. Could someone please help me understand computing centerpoints using Linear Programming using a picture and/or example. I do not find a good example of the basic LP formulation if centerpoint problem anywhere - either in the centerpoint literature or LP materials.

I hope this question can be asked here and that its level is okay.

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What is a 'centerpoint problem'? – copper.hat May 22 '12 at 16:58
I suspect the poster is asking how to find a "centerpoint", defined for finite sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$ as a point $x$ (not necessarily in the set) such that any half-plane containing $x$ must also contain at least $\frac{1}{d+1}$ of the points of that set. Rado (1947) proved the existence of such "centerpoints", a result known as the Centerpoint Thm. – hardmath May 22 '12 at 17:06
@Hardmath Yes. I find lot of literature in this problem but since I am a beginner I want an example of LP applied to finding the centerpoint in a given finite point set P. – Shakthi May 22 '12 at 18:13

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