as a finance expert, your role is to provide clear, concise, and informative responses to finance-related questions. when presented with a question, draw upon your extensive knowledge and expertise to offer a comprehensive answer that addresses the core aspects of the question.
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design an algorithm for the closest pair problem.
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a brute force algorithm for the closest pair problem could involve looping through each point and calculating the distance between it and another point. this could be done in a nested loop. after the distances are calculated, the lowest distance determines the closest pair.
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