Given a cloud of points in three dimensional space (with coordinates x,y,z), is the centroid for these points equal to the arithmetic mean of their coordinates?
Centroid equal to Arithmetic Mean?
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1Look for the definition of "centroid" in your book. In my textbook, the answer is "yes" (if "cloud" means "finite set"). – 2012-02-22
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1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centroid#Of_a_finite_set_of_points – 2012-02-22
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0Thanks for the reply, i saw the wikipedia page, but wasn't sure if my interpretation was correct. – 2012-02-22