#The smallest circles ---------- **Challenge** This is a variant of the smallest-circle problem, but instead of one circle, you get three. Given a list of coordinates, output three circles such that the following conditions are met: 1. Each input coordinate must be located inside or on the perimeter of a circle. 2. The sum of the radii of all three circles must be minimal. 3. The coordinates and radii of all three circles must be non-negative integers. You must place all three circles. You may place overlapping circles. A circle with a radius of zero that is directly on top of an input coordinate is considered to be covering that input coordinate. **Input** A list containing between 1 and 1000 pairs of integers, inclusive. Each pair of integers represents an xy-coordinate. Use whatever input format you want to use. For example, the input... > 1,1;1,2;2,2;3,3 ... can be drawn like this: [![enter image description here][1]][1] **Output** A list of three integer triples. Each triple contains an x coordinate, followed by a y coordinate, followed by a radius. The triples, and the integers within each triple, must be distinguishable from one another. Otherwise, the output format is not important. Example: > 1,1,1;2,2,1;3,3,2 Given this example output, circles would be drawn at (1,1), (2,2), and (3,3). The first two circles would have a radius of 1, and the third would have a radius of 2. The sum of the radii would be 4. **Test case explained** Given the input... > 1,1;1,2;2,2;3,3 ... you could output... > 1,2,1;3,3,0;0,0,0 ... or you could output... > 1/2/1 > 3/3/0 > 0/0/0 The radii sums to 1, and since it is not possible to draw three circles whose radii sum to less than 1 that encompass or touch all four points, this is the correct answer. ---------- [tag:code-golf] [tag:math] [tag:geometry] (maybe [tag:parsing] too) [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/ZaikL.png