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          |  |  Programming Tips: An April Fool's Hoax
 
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 | Organization: | Macalester College | 
 | Department: | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science | 
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          |  |  Some subtle ideas from computational geometry can be used to form the adjacency graph of a map, which in turn can be used to resolve a famous four-coloring hoax.
 
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 |  | GraphColoring.m (129.4 KB) - Mathematica Package |  |  | aprilFools.nb (774.6 KB) - Mathematica Notebook | 
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