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- From: geversti@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Gordon Everstine)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Need: prpndcular dist from pt to line
- Message-ID: <29124@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:36:38 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.210554.5350@seas.gwu.edu> <HAMMOND.92Dec30111554@annemarie.albany.edu>
- Reply-To: geversti@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Gordon Everstine)
- Organization: David Taylor Model Basin, Bethesda, Md.
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- Since the available information included the coordinates of the point
- P and the end points A and B of the line, another algorithm would be
- to use the vector cross product to compute twice the area of the triangle
- PAB and divide by the length of the vector AB.
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