geometry-challenged

[Dar Scott]

On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:

> One practical way to deal with the parallel lines case is to make them 
> converge to a point at a very great distance--see below. Or, of 
> course, you could return a "Lines parallel" message.

In the original problem, testing whether two line _segments_ intersect 
would be handy.  Getting the intersection point along the way could be 
a byproduct of such a function.

Dar Scott