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This method won't work. Take the three points

p( 10, 10, 10 );
p( 14.142, 10, 0 );
p( 10, 14.142, 0 );
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Using the origin as the base, all three points have a calculated distance of 17.32 and will sort adjacent to each other, but they are obviously in completely different positions and the distance between each of the three points varies greatly.

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In reply to Re: Re: Processing data with lot of math... by BrowserUk
in thread Processing data with lot of math... by qhayaal

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