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How to use Wolfram Alpha to calculate location of three overlapping Circles

Posted 2 years ago
POSTED BY: Don Baechtel
7 Replies
Posted 2 years ago

Assuming I understood what you meant, I wrote a solution notebook in Wolfram Language. I don't think you can solve it in WolframAlpha (maybe with the desktop version, which I don't have).

POSTED BY: Werner Geiger
Posted 2 years ago

Looks Good.

Great Job !!

POSTED BY: Don Baechtel
POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni
Posted 2 years ago
POSTED BY: Don Baechtel
Posted 2 years ago

Something like

minimize the sum of the distance from p to p1 and the distance from p to p2 and the distance from p to p3 with p1 = (1,0) and p2 = (0,2) and p3 = (-1,0) and p = (x,y)

should do. But in my WolframAlpha Android App this query is not understood.

**Postscript: ** Sorry. This is not what you need. It will give the center of gravity, i.e. mean, of the three sensor locations. Anyway, you'd better handle that problem directly within Wolfram Language, not WolframAlpha. The latter's natural language queries are a nightmare concerning mathematics. Most of the time they are not understood and it's and endless trial and error game to achieve results.

POSTED BY: Werner Geiger
Posted 2 years ago

Can you provide more details? I do not quite follow your method.

POSTED BY: Don Baechtel
Posted 2 years ago
POSTED BY: Bill Nelson
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