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+%% Copyright (c) 2011, INRA
+%% 2003-2011, David Legland <david.legland@grignon.inra.fr>
+%% 2011 Adapted to Octave by Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal@ifi.uzh.ch>
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+
+%% -*- texinfo -*-
+%% @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{b} = } isPointOnCircle (@var{point}, @var{circle})
+%% Test if a point is located on a given circle.
+%%
+%% B = isPointOnCircle(POINT, CIRCLE)
+%% return true if point is located on the circle, i.e. if the distance to
+%% the circle center equals the radius up to an epsilon value.
+%%
+%% B = isPointOnCircle(POINT, CIRCLE, TOL)
+%% Specifies the tolerance value.
+%%
+%% Example:
+%% isPointOnCircle([1 0], [0 0 1])
+%% returns true, whereas
+%% isPointOnCircle([1 1], [0 0 1])
+%% return false
+%%
+%% @seealso{circles2d, isPointInCircle}
+%% @end deftypefn
+
+function b = isPointOnCircle(point, circle, varargin)
+
+ tol = 1e-14;
+ if ~isempty(varargin)
+ tol = varargin{1};
+ end
+
+ d = sqrt(sum(power(point - circle(:,1:2), 2), 2));
+ b = abs(d-circle(:,3))<tol;
+
+endfunction
+