Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/04/17:55:07
MTEEL DOT DTECHS AT dtechs DOT com (Mark Teel) wrote:
>I would assume you want your algorithms to be accurate, thus the equation.
>Shapes can sometimes be represented exactly by mathematical equations, and
>should be when possible. And I don't think Word Processors have bupkus to do
>with an ellipse.
>One should be rigorous when one can. Your first definition was inaccurate,
>period. (BTW, I make a living designing algorithms, math was just my first
>love).
Maybe you're too much into analytic geometry. If you replace the 1
with any constant value, his first definition is exact. Not quite
suitable for any computer algorithm, true, but still
mathematically/geometrically exact.
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