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Re: Consistent "away" intercepts. Why?
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2019 May 4, 20:29 +0100
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2019 May 4, 20:29 +0100
Sorry I didn't explain that very well. Suppose you have three lines of position forming a triangle. If the GP of all the bodies is in the direction away from the triangle, ie the "outward pointing normals" or all the opposite way, then the position is in the incentre . If however two are inward and one is outward, or vice versa then you get the excentre corresponding to the odd one out! Bill On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 16:04, Geoffrey Kolbewrote: > > "........the true position is ....... one of the excentres, depending on which side of the lines of position the GP of the body is on." > > Why should one of the excentres be so favoured...? > > Geoffrey Kolbe > >