Problem 2861. Is the test point on the line segment?

Created by Brian Hannan

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Guillaume on 22 Jan 2015

Your recent edit to the test suite broke it. You need a space or a comma between the two -1 in the definition of pa in the first test.

Brian Hannan on 22 Jan 2015

Thanks, Guillaume. I just fixed the error.

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Solution 562566

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 22 Jan 2015

perhaps a few more test cases will help...

Solution 562548

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Jan Orwat on 22 Jan 2015

This is not a proper solution. For example it returns false negative for pa = [0,0,0]; pb = [3,3,0]; pc = [2,2,0]; and false positive for pa = [0,0,0]; pb = [3,3,3]; pc = [2,2,1];

Brian Hannan on 22 Jan 2015

Thanks for pointing this out, Jan.

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