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Diameter (General)

The farthest Distance between two points on the boundary of a closed figure.

See also Borsuk's Conjecture


References

Eppstein, D. ``Width, Diameter, and Geometric Inequalities.'' http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/diam.html.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-24