Problem 2317. Distance of the centroids of the balls

Created by Marco Castelli

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Given n balls of radius r and the vector p (nx3) with all position (x,y,z) of the balls, return the symmetric matrix A (nxn) containing all distance between the centroid of all balls (diagonal terms should be all 0).
Two or more balls can overlap.

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Piotr Lesniewski on 19 Feb 2020

Perhaps the "default" solution should not be the one actually solving the problem?

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 13 Jul 2020

maybe an admin could, please, erase the solution from the default?

goc3 on 28 Sep 2020

The default function has been updated to not reveal the solution.

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