- ∗The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Ms. Diane Manninen, University of Washington.
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- 2 W. R. Tobler, personal communication.
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- 6 The number of combinations of fifty subdivisions taken seven at a time is markedly less than the number of combinations of several hundred subdivisions taken forty-nine at a time.
- 7 The mathematics of a set of distance-minimizing centers usually results in a dichotomy of small, compact districts, and larger, less compact ones.
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