Re: semicircle

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From: Jay Link (jlink@interlink-bbs.com)
Date: Tue 30 Nov 1999 - 18:43:23 IST


> hmmmm ... have you tested these routines with all possible radii ?
>
> without testing them myself, i suspect that there will be certain values
> for r (radius) that result in a less than perfectly filled circle or
> semi-circle. this being because of the rounding errors in the math
> functions and the line algorithm. nothing can be done about that except to
> be aware that these things happen :)

Hmmmm ... that is a good point. That's happened to me in the past (as you
know). I will do some more testing in a bit.

Thank you for bringing this up. I hope my previous smart-a**ed comments
didn't precipitate your feuding with Clive!  :)

-J


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