yes, basically all the groups of intersecting circles centered at each
person should be assigned 1 dustbin. 1 dustbin for 1 such group. I think
this will do.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Don wrote:
> Assume that the people are more sparse or not uniformly distributed,
> so that you don't need to cover all of the area to cover all of the
> people.
>
> I would think about something like this:
>
> For each pair of two people who are not already within 100 meters of a
> dustbin, but are within 100 meters of each other, consider the two
> locations for a dustbin exactly 100 meters from both of them. Count
> the number of people within 100 meters of each of those locations who
> are not already within 100 meters of a dustbin. Add a dustbin in the
> one location which covers the largest number of new people. Repeat
> until everyone is covered. That is not guaranteed to minimize the
> number of bins, but it should be close.
>
> Don
>
> On May 31, 3:54 pm, Logic King wrote:
> > If the number of people is large then putting the dustbin in hexagonal
> > fashion as we do in mobile networks should minimize the number of dustbin
> > ...
> >
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:35 AM, ross wrote:
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