In mathematics, the covering radius of a collection of points P in a metric space is the smallest r > 0 such that spheres of radius r around the points P will completely cover the space.
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Famous quotes containing the word covering:
“Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended
lying,
Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket,
Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)