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| | General position - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In geometry, general position for a set of points, or other configuration, means the general case situation, as opposed to some more special or coincidental cases that are possible. |
 | | This notion is important in mathematics and its applications, because degenerate cases may require an exceptional treatment; for example, when stating exactly certain theorems and when writing computer programs. |
 | | In some contexts, e.g., when discussing Voronoi tessellations and Delaunay triangulations in the plane, a stricter definition is used: a set of points in the plane is then said to be in general position only if no three of them lie on the same straight line and no four lie on the same circle. |
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