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Re: in center of a triangle

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• Subject: [mg19609] Re: in center of a triangle
• From: Dr Phillip Kent <p.kent at ic.ac.uk>
• Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 21:09:15 -0400
• Organization: Imperial College
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Tom De Vries wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has seen or has written a Mathematica  procedure to
> generate the incenter of a triangle given the vertices of the triangle.  

There is this, and a lot more ideas for coordinate geometry,
in "Mathematica Graphics" by Tom Wickham-Jones (Springer 1994).
Incidentally, this is one of the best Mathematica books *ever*.

The code (called "ExtendGraphics") is available for free
on MathSource (www.mathsource.com).

-Phillip

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