FindMinimum and the minimum-radius circle (2)
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- Subject: [mg50145] FindMinimum and the minimum-radius circle (2)
- From: Thomas E Burton <tburton at brahea.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:01:30 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
(See thread "Smalest enclosing circle".) I'd better correct my sloppy reference to a "triangle" in the last post. The contour of radius r surrounding the solution governed by 3 points is a 3-sided closed curve consisting of arcs of radius r, a generalization of the Reuleaux triangle where the generating triangle, that connecting the three points, is not regular. Tom Burton