On 2/4/2010 7:05 AM, Shashwat Anand wrote:
I want to calculate areas.
like for two circles (0, 0) and (0, 1) : the output is '1.228370'
similarly my aim is to take 'n' co-ordinates, all of radius '1' and
calculate the area common to all.
The best I got was monte-carlo methods which is inefficient. Is there
any other approach possible.
There is a method for calculating the area of a polygon by traversing
its boundary. I forget the formula, but you should be able to find it.
So *if* you can find the arcs that bound the area, you can approximate
each by a series of short lines and apply the polygon method.
Terry Jan Reedy
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