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- From: johnk@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (John J Kuszewski)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: distance geometry in 2-D
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.201745.18172@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 20:17:45 GMT
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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- Given 5 points in a plane A, B, C, D, & E and the distances between
- all pairs of points except D & E, can you give me a general means of
- determining the distance between D & E? Can it be done without using
- transcendental functions? I need to be able to compute this quickly.
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