thanks, all of you On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> 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 > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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