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You are given a convex polygon P on n vertices in the plane (specified by their x and y co...

You are given a convex polygon P on n vertices in the plane (specified by their x and y coordinates). A triangulation of P is a collection of n − 3 diagonals of P such that no two diagonals intersect (except possibly at their endpoints). Notice that a triangulation splits the polygon’s interior into n − 2 disjoint triangles. The cost of a triangulation is the sum of the lengths of the diagonals in it. Give an efficient algorithm for finding a triangulation of minimum cost. (Hint: Label the vertices of P by 1,..., n, starting from an arbitrary vertex and walking clockwise. For 1 ≤ ijn, let the subproblem A(i, j) denote the minimum cost triangulation of the polygon spanned by vertices i, i + 1,..., j.)

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