# The barycenter in the plane: barycenter

### 13.6.10 The barycenter in the plane: barycenter

See Section 14.4.6 for barycenters of objects in space.

The barycenter command returns and draws the barycenter of a set of weighted points.

- barycenter takes an unspecified number of arguments:
  L1,L2,…,Ln, a sequence of lists of length two, where each list consists of a point and a weight. This information can also be given as a matrix with two columns (the first column the points and the second column the weights) or a matrix with two rows and more than two columns.
- barycenter(L1,L2,…,Ln) draws and returns the barycenter of the weighted points.

#### Example.

The following commands will draw the barycenter of the points (1,1) with weight 1, (1,−1) with weight 1 and (1,4) with weight 2.
Input:

barycenter([1 + i,1],[1 - i,1],[1 + 4*i, 2])

or:

barycenter([[1 + i,1],[1 - i,1],[1 + 4*i, 2]])

or:

barycenter([[1 + i, 1 - i, 1 + 4*i],[1,1,2]])

Output: