International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 283846, 16 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/283846
Research Article

The Weighted Fermat Triangle Problem

Natural Sciences and Mathematics, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ 08240, USA

Received 29 June 2007; Accepted 13 September 2007

Academic Editor: Marco Squassina

Copyright © 2008 Yujin Shen and Juan Tolosa. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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