curvature of a circle passing through three

[Soumyadip Rakshit]

Hi,

Could you please tell me the most efficient way of finding the curvature of
a circle passing through three (non-colinear) points.

Thanks a ton,
Soumyadip.

 

[peter steiner]

Hi,

Could you please tell me the most efficient way of finding the curvature of
a circle passing through three (non-colinear) points.

the smart folk at comp.theory will have an answer for this questions
and others regarding general algorithmic problems.

-- peter

 

[Victor Bazarov]

the smart folk at comp.theory will have an answer for this questions
and others regarding general algorithmic problems.

Actually, comp.graphics.algorithms is probably a better (more specialised)
place to ask about geometry, but, man, isn't this the simplest problem
there is? Every damn book on trigonometry has got to have the solution.
It's not even college math. How lazy does one need to be to ask questions
like that on Usenet? Come on!

 

[Jim Langston]

Hi,

Could you please tell me the most efficient way of finding the curvature
of a circle passing through three (non-colinear) points.

Thanks a ton,
Soumyadip.

try
alt.math
alt.math.recreational

 

[Dave Townsend]

Hi,

Could you please tell me the most efficient way of finding the curvature of
a circle passing through three (non-colinear) points.

Thanks a ton,
Soumyadip.

You didn't try very hard, I punched "three points on a circle" and the first
hit on goggle was
what you were looking for.
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/circlefrom3/