Hello,

I've created GEOMETRY-97 [1] to change commons-geometry to use the term 
"centroid" to refer to the center of mass of a geometric object instead of the 
term "barycenter" (inherited from commons-math). The two terms can be used 
interchangeably [2] but "centroid" seems to be used far more often. (I 
generally need to use "centroid" when searching for algorithms and articles 
online in order to get useful results.) Does anyone have an opinion on this?

I know this is nit-picking since the two terms mean the same thing, but I'd 
like to make the library as intuitive as possible for first-time users.

Regards,
Matt J

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/GEOMETRY/issues/GEOMETRY-97
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centroid

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