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Okay, I am in no way a mathematics student but I happened to be writing a program on a map with coordinates of locations displayed on the map.

My problem is that the points could be scattered on the map with an indefinite boundary and I need to find a boundary (rectangle) around these points and thus I need to get a formula to form an algorithm so that the program will find the optimum boundary itself.

I hope this is understandable and thanks in anticipation of any response.

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    What do you mean by optimum boundary in this case? Are you trying to find a rectangle with minimum perimeter that includes all points of interest?2010-12-05
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    exactly! just like you put it. "minimum perimeter that includes all points of interest"2010-12-05

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