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THE AVERAGE DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS
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General convexity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 October 2009
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We provide bounds on the average distance between two points uniformly and independently chosen from a compact convex subset of the s-dimensional Euclidean space.
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- Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 80 , Issue 3 , December 2009 , pp. 353 - 359
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- Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2009
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