Barycentric or areal coordinates are extremely useful in engineering applications involving integrals often easier to evaluate, and Gaussian quadrature tables are often presented in terms of area coordinates.
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*In triangle geometry, barycentric coordinates for the location of a point relative to a triangle are also called areal coordinates because they give relative areas of certain sub-triangles . talk ) 22 : 57, 29 September 2016 ( UTC)