beautypg.com

HP Prime Graphing Calculator User Manual

Page 188

background image

184

Geometry

Examples:
If GA is defined to be the unit circle, then area(GA) returns

.

area(4-x^2/4, x=-4..4) returns 14.666…

coordinates

Given a vector of points, returns a matrix containing the x- and

y-coordinates of those points. Each row of the matrix defines

one point; the first column gives the x-coordinates and the

second column contains the y-coordinates.

coordinates([point1, point2, …, pointn]))

distance

Returns the distance between two points or between a point

and a curve.

distance(point1, point2)

or

distance(point,

curve)

Examples:

distance(1+i, 3+3i) returns 2.828… or 2√2.
if GA is the point at (0, 0) and GB is defined as
plotfunc(4–x^2/4), then distance (GA, GB) returns 3.464…
or 2√3.

distance2

Returns the square of the distance between two points or

between a point and a curve.

distance2(point1, point2)

or

distance2(point,

curve)

Examples:

distance2(1+i, 3+3i) returns 8.
If GA is the point at (0, 0) and GB is defined as plotfunc(4-
x^2/4), then distance2(GA, GB) returns 12.