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map with 30 different cities

Source: Chile Finals 2011 L2 p4

October 5, 2022
combinatoricscombinatorial geometry

Problem Statement

It is intended to make a map locating 3030 different cities on it. For this, all the distances between these cities are available as data (each of these distances is considered as a “data”). Three of these cities are already laid out on the map, and they turn out to be non-collinear. How much data must be used as a minimum to complete the map?