Continent smallest continent. Earth's major landmasses all have coasts on a single, continuous World Ocean, which is divided into a number of principal oceanic components by the continents and various geographic criteria. The most restricted meaning of "continent" is that of a continuous area of land or mainland, with the coastline and any land boundaries forming the edge of the continent. In this sense the term "continental Europe" (sometimes referred to in Britain as "the Continent") is used to refer to mainland Europe, excluding islands such as Great Britain, Ireland, Malta and Iceland, and the term "continent of Australia" may refer
Smallest-circle problem on "N". The algorithm is recursive, and takes as arguments two (finite) sets of points and ; it computes the smallest enclosing circle of the union of and , as long as every point of is one of the boundary points of the eventual smallest enclosing circle. Thus, the original smallest enclosing circle problem can be solved by calling the algorithm with equal to the set of points to be enclosed and equal to the empty set; as the algorithm calls itself recursively, it will enlarge the set passed into the recursive calls until it includes all the boundary points