
12 Mar
2002
12 Mar
'02
6:33 p.m.
Ludovic Kuty writes: : | Is it an idiom or some sort of optimization ? It's more to do with the particular algorithm for finding the area of a convex polygon. Try working through the calculation of the area of this kite. Polygon [(0, 0), (1, 0), (2, 2), (0, 1)] I think the two versions of the area function will give different results, and that this will highlight the reason for v1 being matched separately.