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Parallel Lines Associated with Two Sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Eugene Robkin
Affiliation:
University of California at Los Angeles
F. A. Valentine
Affiliation:
University of California at Los Angeles
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What conditions determine when a collection of points A lies on a collection of parallel lines each member of which intersects a set B? In order to describe these conditions the following notations and definitions are used. Also for earlier results see Robkin and Valentine (2).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1966

References

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