where
Calculation of circle parameters
The parameters of a circle may be determined from 3 non-colinear points.
Given three points on the circumference, a, b, c the centre of the circle
is given by
where
If one point is taken as the origin of coordinates, point c, then the
equations reduce to
and
and the radius is then
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