[algogeeks] Re: find a point closest to other points

2012-05-10 Thread anant agarwal
try searching "Manhattan Distance" On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:10:38 AM UTC+5:30, tech coder wrote: > > Given N points(in 2D) with x and y coordinates. You have to find a > point P (in N given points) such that the sum of distances from > other(N-1) points to P is minimum. > > -- > > Rega

Re: [algogeeks] Re: find a point closest to other points

2012-05-10 Thread Nima Aghdaii
I actually made a mistake. The function is convex and binary search works. Look up GEOMETRIC MEDIAN in Wikipedia. -Nima On May 9, 2012 10:24 AM, "atul anand" wrote: > sort p(xi,yi) on the basis of x-axis. find media of x-axis = x_median > sort p(xi,yi) on the basis of y-axis. find media of y-ax