Re: How to calculate the area of a polygon?
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- Subject: [mg27736] Re: How to calculate the area of a polygon?
- From: Bruce Atwood <bta at attewode.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:52:54 -0500 (EST)
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See
http://www.attewode.com/Calculus/AreaMeasurement/area.htm
for a discussion and links concerning several methods using Mathematica.
liwen liwen wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I want to calculate the area of a polygon, for
> example, the polygon is defined by following points:
> data={{0,0},{5,0},{10,5},{0,10},{-5,5}};
> Regardless of that it is concave or convex.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Liwen 3/11/2001
>
> E-mail: gzgear at yahoo.com
>
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