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Old May 20th, 2008, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by potticus View Post
but they do, just at one point. that dc value is the smallest distance from the point to the cubic, so a circle with that radius will touch at that specific point.

edit: perhaps that is a matlab rounding error?
My conclusion that they don't intersect is based on a plot which may be a bit crude. However XL solver thinks the minimum distance between the curves is 0.027.

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