MathDB
Overlapping

Source: Chinese TST

April 9, 2008
algorithminductiongeometry proposedgeometry

Problem Statement

Prove that in a plane, arbitrary n n points can be overlapped by discs that the sum of all the diameters is less than n n, and the distances between arbitrary two are greater than 1 1. (where the distances between two discs that have no common points are defined as that the distances between its centers subtract the sum of its radii; the distances between two discs that have common points are zero)