Tuesday, December 22, 2015

To find the center of a given circle


This method for finding the centre, and by extension the equation, of a circle given three non-colinear points, brings the ancient textbook master Euclid onto Descartes’ coordinate plane.

Animation: jpedmaths
Read and learn:
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/bookIII/propIII1.html

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