Problem 43640. Calculate the centroid of a triangle

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Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centroid

Example

Input:

x = [0 0 1]; % x-coordinate
y = [0 1 0]; % y-coordinate

Output:

x_centroid =  0.33333;
y_centroid =  0.33333;

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Andriy Kavetsky on 26 Oct 2016

Is this triangle 2D or 3D, because input parametrs are only x and y arrays?

Matthew Eicholtz on 27 Oct 2016

The only issue I have with this problem is that it assumes the input points actually form a triangle. One example where this does not hold is three collinear points.

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Piero Cimule on 22 Jun 2020 at 2:21

x_c = mean(x);
y_c = mean(y);

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