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In recent years, computers have been used regularly to solve major problems in discrete geometry. The talk at ICMS 2010 will give a survey of the computational methods. The extended abstract that is provided below mentions a few of the problems that will be discussed.
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Hales, T.C. (2010). Computational Discrete Geometry. In: Fukuda, K., Hoeven, J.v.d., Joswig, M., Takayama, N. (eds) Mathematical Software – ICMS 2010. ICMS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6327. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15582-6_1
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