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- From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
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- Subject: Re: Fit a circle to (x,y) datapoints?
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:20:20 GMT
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- I don't know much about SAS, nor how much coding you could do in it,
- but fitting a circle to a set of data points would be trivial for a
- genetic algorithm. Frankly, I don't understand why GA's aren't used
- more often, especially as they are limited by the weaknesses of
- least-squared error systems. Anyway, I'd specify the circle as
- x and y of the center, and r, the radius.
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