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["Valdes, Julio" <>]

Dear Sirs:

First of all thank you for the formidable effort that represents the work 
around the CGAL library.
I am not an expert in computational geometry, but I need to use some basic 
algorithms and I have not been able to find my way through the documentation.
Please excuse me if my questions are too trivial for you.
The algorithms that I am interested in are related to convex hulls (in d > 3 
dimensions):
1) distance from a point to a convex hull.
2) whether a point is inside/outside with respect to a given convex hull.

I would appreciate if you could direct me to the algorithms in CGAL that 
approach the aforementioned problems.
In case that there would not be available algorithms for the general case, 
references to lower dimension versions would be also helpful.
Any additional comments that you could provide, given your expertise in the 
domain would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely

Julio J. Valdés
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