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Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry archive
Proceedings of the eleventh annual symposium on Computational geometry table of contents

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pages: 10 - 19

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-724-3

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Timothy M. Chan

Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia

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SIGACT: ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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