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We present a brief introduction to logarithmic capacity, and describe in detail a method for computing it using quadratic minimization. The method yields rigorous upper and lower bounds, which can in principle be made arbitrarily close to one another.
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Research for this article was funded by NSERC (Canada), FQRNT (Québec) and the Canada Research Chairs program. Participation at the CMFT 2009 Conference was funded by TUBITAK (Turkey).