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Sectorial Covers for Curves of Constant Length

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John E. Wetzel
John E. Wetzel*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
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In answer to a question raised by Leo Moser, A. Meir proved some years ago that every plane arc of unit length lies in some closed semidisk of radius ½. His elegant, unpublished argument is reproduced here with his kind permission.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 1973 , pp. 367 - 375
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1973

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