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Informally, an algorithm is a set of explicit instructions used to solve a problem (e.g. Euclid's algorithm for computing the greatest common divisor of two integers). For more specific questions on algorithms, this tag may be used in conjunction with the approximation-algorithms, algorithmic-randomness and algorithmic-topology tags.

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get a point in polygon (maximize the distance from borders)

You seem willing to accept non-optimal solutions as long as they lead to optimal solutions. For convex polygons, I suggest using a midpoint method: pick pairs of vertices (ideally they are presented …
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Fast evaluation of polynomials

The cheapest way of finding the value of a polynomial, given unlimited preprocessing resources, is to look up the precalculated value in the table. However, if you know you are going to need several …
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