From: Lionel Bouton Date: 2008-02-16T03:26:45+09:00 Subject: Re: [QUIZ] The Smallest Circle (#157) Horea Raducan wrote: > If one of the points is on the enclosing circle, is that a valid solution ? > > I wouldn't care about such details : the points are defined by floating point coordinates : I'd say that defining a circle with a center and a radius in floating point which passes exactly through such points is most often impossible. There are obvious exceptions like circles with zero radius and some values where there's no approximation in the computations but these cases aren't likely to matter here. Lionel