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Math puzzle (inspired by recent posts of James Tanton). Take some points in Euclidean space z_1,…,z_k , what is the locus of points x such that the sum of the squares of the distances of x to z_1 through z_k is constant? I.e. |x-z_1|^2+ … + |x-z_k|^2 = c.
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