Extreme point (disambiguation)

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An extreme point or an extremal point is a point that belongs to the extremity of something. More specifically it may refer to:

  • Extreme point in mathematics, a point in a convex set which does not lie in any open line segment joining two points in the set
  • A point where some function attains its extremum
  • A leaf vertex of a tree in graph theory
  • Extreme points of Earth in geography, points of land that extend farther in one direction than any other part of that land
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