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From: MDP@SU-SCORE.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Curve Fitting
Message-ID: <1879@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 00:35:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 11 00:35:29 1984
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From:  Mike Peeler <MDP@SU-SCORE.ARPA>

To BARNARD@SRI-AI:

    The problem is that three points do not ONLY define a
circle.  It takes five points to determine a unique conic
section.  Besides, it's fairly likely that the curve is
desired to be a function of x.

                                        Cheers,
                                        Mike