Problem 46565. Find an inscribed square on a closed curve
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Your test suite just checks whether a quadrilateral has equal sides, but that's not enough to form a square: rhombuses also have equal sides. Therefore, the test suite should also check a solution's angles.
PS: A test case filled with rhombuses and a single square on the curve would be instructional too.
Test suite has been updated to check for a solution's angles as well and a mixed test case with rhombus and square mixed has been added.
Solutions have been rescored as well.
Where is the square in the last test? The test passes with [1 3 5 7], but that's a rhombus. The angle test works because the dot products are 3, 3, -3, -3, and their sum is still zero. Perhaps checking that all dot products are zero (or less than a tolerance) would work.
Hello Chris, there is actually a typo from my side in the last test case.
Point #6 is supposed to be (1,-1) instead of (-1, 1) (which occurs twice).
I am unable to correct the test suite at this moment, I will update it inline with your feedback, as soon as I can.
Hello Chris, I have corrected the test case #7 and modified the test suite as per your suggestion.
Also, I have rescored the solutions.
It was interesting to see that quite a many solutions failed the last test case, incorrectly giving the rhombus as the solution
(i.e [1 3 5 7]).
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