Popular recipes tagged "triangles" but not "vertices"http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/triangles-vertices/2009-09-08T14:08:14-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes3 Point Area Finder (Python)
2009-09-08T14:08:14-07:00Daniel Sahahttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4171644/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576896-3-point-area-finder/
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Python
recipe 576896
by <a href="/recipes/users/4171644/">Daniel Saha</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/area/">area</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/coordinates/">coordinates</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/triangles/">triangles</a>).
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<p>Plug in three coordinates to triArea(a,b,c), and it will return the area of the triangle.
some common variable letters transfer into these meanings:
m: slope
y,c: y intercept
a: x's coefficient
b: y's coefficient </p>