Re: Sphere formula
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- Subject: [mg109485] Re: Sphere formula
- From: Ray Koopman <koopman at sfu.ca>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:53:49 -0400 (EDT)
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On Apr 28, 4:00 am, Ray Koopman <koop... at sfu.ca> wrote:
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> If x, Dimensions[x] = {n,m}, contains the coordinates of n points
> in m dimensions, findcenter[x] will return the coordinates of the
> center of the best-fitting hypersphere (minimum variance of the
> distances of the points from the center).
Correction -- It minimizes the variance of the squared distances.