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Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation

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"byhesed" <byhesed@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Here is the correct answer.
>
> public boolean contains(Circle2D circle) {
> double distance = Math.pow(circle.x - getX(), 2.0) +
> Math.pow(circle.y - getY(), 2.0);
> if (distance <= (Math.pow(radius, 2.0) - Math.pow(circle.radius,
> 2.0)))
> return true;
> else
> return false;
>
> }
>
> public boolean overlaps(Circle2D circle) {
> double distance = Math.pow(circle.x - getX(), 2.0) +
> Math.pow(circle.y - getY(), 2.0);
> if (distance < Math.abs(Math.pow(radius, 2.0) -
> Math.pow(circle.radius, 2.0)))
> return true;
>
> else
> return false;
> }

That's still wrong.
'contains' should have
return Math.sqrt(distance) <= radius-circle.radius;
and 'overlaps' should have
return Math.sqrt(distance) <= radius+circle.radius;
as can easily be seen by drawing a simple picture.

Here I have retained your name 'distance' for what is actually the square of
the distance.

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Programming question determining two circle's relation byhesed <byhesed@gmail.com> - 2011-04-30 01:33 -0700
  Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation byhesed <byhesed@gmail.com> - 2011-04-30 01:59 -0700
    Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation "Gavino" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-30 17:51 +0200
      Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation byhesed <byhesed@gmail.com> - 2011-04-30 09:01 -0700
        Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation "Gavino" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-30 18:33 +0200
    Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation byhesed <byhesed@gmail.com> - 2011-04-30 02:03 -0700
  Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation byhesed <byhesed@gmail.com> - 2011-04-30 02:50 -0700
    Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation byhesed <byhesed@gmail.com> - 2011-04-30 08:42 -0700
      Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation "Gavino" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-30 17:59 +0200
    Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-30 17:25 -0400
      Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-30 17:03 -0700
        Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-01 03:10 -0400
  Re: Programming question determining two circle's relation Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-30 02:08 -0700
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