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3.9.2 Motorway Networks: Steiner Trees

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Under the heading ‘3.9.2’, which refers to the corresponding section in the Magic Mathworks Travelling Circus inventory, The Magic Manual, Andy Bell describes and justifies in the following pages the process by which he reduces an arbitrary tree connecting n points to one of minimum total length, a ‘Steiner’ tree.

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