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In this article we consider a horizontal road illuminated by two lights, where P i is the illumination power and h i the height of a lamp. The coordinates of the lamps are (0, h 1) and (s, h 2 ) wheres is the horizontal distance between the two light sources. Let X = (x, 0) be a point on the road somewhere between the two lights. In this chapter we will look for a point X which is minimally illuminated. In Figure 3.1 we have made a sketch of the situation we will refer to later in this chapter.
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Bartoň, S., Gruntz, D. (1993). The Illumination Problem. In: Solving Problems in Scientific Computing Using Maple and Matlab ® . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97533-2_3
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