Re: SQL challenge

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"Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message news:pan.2004.07.13.19.21.51.416635_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be...
> > Is there an elegant SQL statement? If you say yes, then, I would think
hard
> > finding it:-)

> Yes, there is. We (some people in my research group) found it ourselves,
> but we had to make the assumption that not all points are in a single
> plane. Without that assumption things seem to get ugly.

What data type are the coordinates of the points ?

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