Thread: Point to lie on a circle. Help!

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    Point to lie on a circle. Help!

    Please, would you help me with this program:

    Code:
     #include <iostream>
     #include <cmath>
     using namespace std;
    
     void main()
     {
     cout << "x = ";
     double x;
     cin >> x;
    
     cout << "y = ";
     double y;
     cin >> y;
    
     bool c1 = ((((x + 1)*(x + 1) + (y - 1)*(y - 1)) <= 1) && 
     (y <= (1/3*x + 1)) && 
     (y >= (x + 1)) &&
     (y >= 0));
    
     if (c1)
     cout << "true" << endl;
     else
     cout << "false" << endl;
    
     }
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    The point don`t have to lie in (-2, 0.5), (-2, 1) and (0,1). :S

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    Sure:

    1. It's int main(). Read why void main() is wrong
    2. Learn how to indent your code.
    3. Learn how to ask questions.
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    On a circle?
    In a circle?
    In the shaded area?

    We need more than some random uncommented code, and an unexplained picture.
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    Shouldn't you have more than just one set of numbers? Like D is the diameter of the circle, and X,Y is the coordinate of the center of the circle, and pX,pY is the coordinates of the point you want to check? You have X and Y, but what are you comparing X and Y to? You can't find out if something is relative to a coordinate, if you only have one of the two pairs of coordinates.

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    Quzah is right. You cannot solve this problem without knowing the center of the circle and the radius or diameter of the circle. Since a circle is the set of all points equidistant from a center point the check to see if px,py lies on the circle is simple if you know those two pieces of information about the circle.

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    From the diagram, we know the centre of the circle. I think what we don't know is what the original poster is actually asking.
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    Thank you!

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    For what? You have not explained what you want.

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    I still don't know what that shaded area is supposed to be. The area of triangle 0/-1,-1/0,-3/0 that happens to fall in the circle? That doesn't really do anything for us as far as finding "a point to lie on a circle".


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