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3 May 2024 04:37:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help with "programmatically" determining intersection  
From: clipka
Date: 17 Mar 2016 17:20:50
Message: <56eb1fb2$1@news.povray.org>
Am 17.03.2016 um 15:10 schrieb Bald Eagle:

> I do think that his suggestion of "tracking" the curves and determining the
> intersection from a change of sign will work - but that looks more "practical"
> than mathematical and elegant.   But maybe that's the reality of how it's done.

That's numerical mathematics for you.

The so-called bisection method is a well-accepted approach to solve
equations numerical when an analytical approach is not feasible, and has
been around for centuries.


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