Closest Meeting Point
Explore how to determine the optimal meeting point for several individuals on a grid by minimizing their total travel distance using Euclidean distance. Understand the problem setup, the brute force approach to evaluate each point, and analyze the time and space complexity of the solution. This lesson helps you grasp concepts applicable to spatial optimization and algorithm analysis.
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Statement
There is an MxM grid where N people live. These N people want to meet such that the total travel distance is minimized. The travel distance is to be calculated using the Euclidean distance metric. For two points on this grid, (x1,y1) and (x2, y2), the Euclidean distance between them is given by:
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