“…The problem of approximating simultaneously two continuous functions on a finite closed interval was first studied by Dunham in [8], where the results on characterization and uniqueness of best simultaneous approximation were obtained. Since then, such problems have been extended extensively, see, for example, [13][14][15][16][18][19][20][21][22][24][25][26]28,29]. In particular, characterization and uniqueness results were given in [26] for a class of problems involving L p norms, while a general treatment of a class of problems, which includes these problems in [8,26] as special cases, was given in [18].…”