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In article <3dfe6b6f@news.povray.org>, "Rick Gutleber" <ric### [at] his com>
wrote:
> If the points are _tangential_ to the sphere, wouldn't there only be one
> solution?
He said that the circumscribed sphere (with all points on the sphere)
wasn't the smallest sphere *containing* the points. In some cases, the
smallest sphere touches only 2 or 3 points.
For a regular tetrahedron, the smallest sphere does touch all 4 points.
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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
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