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RadicalCenter

  

find the radical center of three given circles

 

Calling Sequence

Parameters

Description

Examples

Calling Sequence

RadicalCenter(o, c1, c2, c3)

Parameters

o

-

the name of the radical center

c1, c2, c3

-

three circles

Description

• 

The point of concurrence of the radical axes of three circles with noncollinear centers, taken in pairs, is called the radical center of the three circles.

• 

For a detailed description of the radical center o, use the routine detail (i.e., detail(o))

• 

The command with(geometry,RadicalCenter) allows the use of the abbreviated form of this command.

Examples

withgeometry:

circlec1,x2+y2=1,x,y,circlec2,pointA,3,3,4,x,y:

circlec3,x22+y2=94,x,y:

RadicalCentero,c1,c2,c3

o

(1)

formo

point2d

(2)

coordinateso

1116,316

(3)

See Also

geometry[circle]

geometry[point]

geometry[RadicalAxis]