Re: Circles and ellipses

From: Martijn Meijering <mmeijeri_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: 19 Aug 2001 08:54:32 GMT
Message-ID: <91027838Ammeijerixs4allnl@194.109.6.74>

bbadour_at_golden.net (Bob Badour) wrote in <uYIf7.84$tI.21476529_at_radon.golden.net>:

>>But let's return to cicle/ellipse for a minute? Why would anyone WANT
>>to consider a circle an ellipse?
>>Well, I can see one immediate benefit: if
>>all the relevant operations that work on an ellipse also work on a
>>circle, then you can get more useful software written by construing a
>>cirlce as a specialized ellipse, and not writing an implementation for
>>a whole different class.
>>
>>That, to me, is more to the point than the underlying math.
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>Agreed.
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Now *that*'s something I agree with. Received on Sun Aug 19 2001 - 03:54:32 CDT