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DAM
1999
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How to Find a Point on a Line Within a Fixed Distance
It is well known that on a line, a target point in unknown position can be found by walking a path at most 9 times as long as the distance from the start to the target point, in t...
Christoph A. Hipke, Christian Icking, Rolf Klein, ...
STACS
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Optimal Competitive Strategy for Walking in Streets
We present an optimal strategy for searching for a goal in a street which achieves the competitive factor of √ 2, thus matching the best lower bound known before. This finally ...
Christian Icking, Rolf Klein, Elmar Langetepe