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An algorithm is a sequence of well-defined steps that defines an abstract solution to a problem. Use this tag when your issue is related to design and analysis of algorithms.

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Easy way to prove that this algorithm eventually terminates

Introduction and notations: Here is a new and simple version of my algorithm which seems to terminates (according to my experiments), and now I would like to prove that. Let the notation $x_i \in \m …
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Which potential function does this algorithm minimize or maximize?

Considering two sets $A, B$ containing some $p$-dimensional points $x \in \mathbb{R}^p$. Let $d_x^S = \min_{x' \in S \setminus \{x\}} \lVert \mathbf{x} - \mathbf{x'} \rVert$ denote the Euclidean dista …
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