When you say linear, I'm assuming fitting y=mx+c, and passing through
points?
The line through points (x1, y1) and (x2,y2) is
y - y1 = (y2-y1) / (x2-x1) * (x-x1)
That multiplies out to:
y = (y2-y1)/(x2-x1) * x - (y2-y1)/(x2-x1) + y1
That gives m = (y2-y1)/(x2-x1) and c = y1 - (y2-y1)/(x2-x1)
you can then create a class to represent the line:
class Line(object):
def __init__(self, (x1,y1), (x2,y2)):
"create a line passing through points (x1,y1) and (x2,y2)
(inputted as tuples)"
self.m = (y2-y1)/(x2-x1)
self.c = y1 - self.m
def is_on_line(self,(x,y)):
'Test if point represtented by an (x,y) tuple is on the line"
if self. m * x + self.c == y:
return True
else:
return False
def __str__(self):
"returns the equation of the line in the form y=mx+c. Might
be quite long if floats are involved."
print "y=%dx + %d" % (self.m, self.c)
Then all you have to do is choose a pair of points, then iterate over
the list, testing each point in turn, wash, rinse and repeat.
Does that help?
On 4 Dec 2008, at 20:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am starting out with 7 fixed reference points. From there I
want a program that can randomly
generate linear equations. After the equations are generated I
would then like to randomly insert
the 7 fixed reference points into the equations and calculate the
results. I currently have several
programs that can generate random string of words from a file that
contains a list of word but is not
much help creating random equations.
Do you know if there is such a program that can do what I am
trying to get accomplished??
Thanks
Frank Hopkins
Houston, Tx
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