I'm pretty rusty, but I don't think so because you can't just go around messing with the basic orders of operations in arithmetic. Did you try working it out on paper or a small program using 1D and some simple test data (ie. A = 0, B = 10, S = abs(B - radius)... for various radii such as 1,2,3,4,5)? Did you see a full-blown pattern in how the squared distances [ie. pow(S, 2.0) and pow(abs(A - S), 2.0)] change with respect to pow(abs(B - A), 2.0) = 100? If you did, please let me know.

I'm pretty rusty, but I don't think so because you can't just go around messing with the basic orders of operations in arithmetic. Did you try working it out on paper using 1D and some simple test data (ie. A = 0, B = 10, S = abs(B - radius)... for various radii such as 1,2,3,4,5)? Did you see a full-blown pattern in how the squared distances [ie. pow(S, 2.0) and pow(abs(A - S), 2.0)] change with respect to pow(abs(B - A), 2.0) = 100? If you did, please let me know.

I'm pretty rusty, but I don't think so because you can't just go around messing with the basic orders of operations in arithmetic. Did you try working it out on paper using 1D and some simple test data (ie. A = 0, B = 10, S = abs(B - radius)... for various radii such as 1,2,3,4,5)? Did you see a full-blown pattern in how the squared distances [ie. pow(S, 2.0) and pow(abs(A - S), 2.0)] change? If you did, please let me know.

I'm pretty rusty, but I don't think so because you can't just go around messing with the basic orders of operations in arithmetic. Did you try working it out on paper using 1D and some simple test data (ie. A = 0, B = 10, S = abs(B - radius)... for various radii such as 1,2,3,4,5)? Did you see a full-blown pattern in how the squared distances (ie. pow(S, 2.0) and pow(abs(A - S), 2.0) change? If you did, please let me know.

I'm pretty rusty, but I don't think so because you can't just go around messing with the basic orders of operations in arithmetic. Did you try working it out on paper using 1D and some simple test data (ie. A = 0, B = 10, S = (B - radius)... for various radii such as 1,2,3,4,5)? Did you see a full-blown pattern in how the squared distances change? If you did, please let me know.