Re: [ATM] PLOP parts

["Mitch" <funnybone101@earthlink.net>]

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From: atm-bounces@atmlist.net [mailto:atm-bounces@atmlist.net] On Behalf Of
Bob May
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:37 PM
To: atm@atmlist.net
Subject: Re: [ATM] PLOP parts

I'd suspect that the long point from the center will be the out
or in, depending upon what the program generated.  Last resort is
always to calculate where the triangles sit on the points.
Needless to say, the center of a triangle is found by running
perpendiculars of each of the sides.  Where all three lines cross
is the center of the triangle.
Bob May

     Remember if it so happens to be a right triangle two of your altitudes
will be the sides. Did you mean medians bob? Perpendiculars run from a
vertex and form a right angle with the side they meet so in some triangles
the altitudes are actually outside the triangle. Medians run from a vertex
to the mid-point of the opposite side. 

(Hey my geometry homework is coming in handy!!! Of course the 15-20 step
proofs are booooring)

Mitch 

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