Partition of 3D space
Source: IMO Longlist 1983 - P71
September 9, 2010
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Problem Statement
Prove that every partition of -dimensional space into three disjoint subsets has the following property: One of these subsets contains all possible distances; i.e., for every , there are points and inside that subset such that distance between and is exactly