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From: ron@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Ronald Beekelaar)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Trig question
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Date: 17 Nov 89 16:05:06 GMT
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Hi everyone,

   I know this is a silly question. But I need the answer and could think of
another way of getting it. Actually it is a trig-problem I ran into, while
building a graphical interface. Here it is:

   " What is the shortest distance between coordinate (a3, b3) and the line
     through coordinates (a1, b1) and (a2, b2)? "

   The answer should be something like dis = < some formula >, but I couldn't
figure out which one it was.

   Thanks for helping me






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