Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site turtlevax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!turtlevax!ken From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Best fitting curve Message-ID: <430@turtlevax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 03:55:13 EDT Article-I.D.: turtleva.430 Posted: Wed Jun 27 03:55:13 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 28-Jun-84 05:31:12 EDT References: <4061@yale-comix.UUCP> Organization: CADLINC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 5 Why a parabola? One can construct a circle through three points. Aren't circles "better" (in some aesthetic sense) than parabolas? -- Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Palo Alto, CA UUCP: {amd,decwrl,dual,flairvax}!turtlevax!ken