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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

BigFloat does not have a constructor from unsigned int so it makes the 
call in centroid ambiguous as you noted.

Should be fixed by https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/pull/3166

Sebastien.

On 06/08/2018 11:38 AM, Tom Dreyfus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have some trouble using the CORE::BigFloat number type with the 
> centroid function of CGAL, and I did not see any body with the same 
> problems.
>
> Here is a minimal example that does not compile for me :
>
> /#include <CGAL/CORE_BigFloat.h>//
> //#include <CGAL/Cartesian.h>//
> //#include <CGAL/centroid.h>//
> //typedef CGAL::Cartesian<CORE::BigFloat> K;//
> //int main(int argc, char *argv[]){//
> //  std::vector<K::Point_3> points;//
> //  K::Point_3 c = CGAL::centroid(points.begin(), points.end());//
> //  return 0;}/
>
> I have the following error :
>
> *
> **/usr/include/CGAL/centroid.h:425:23: error: call of overloaded 
> ‘BigFloat(unsigned int&)’ is ambiguous**
> **   return ORIGIN + v / (FT)nb_pts;**
> **                       ^~~~~~~~~~*
>
> I can solve this by simply turning the unsigned nb_points into an int, 
> but there is may be something I did not see, or the problem is solved in 
> a more recent version of CGAL ?
>
> My environment is :
>
> _Compiler_ : GNU 6.3.1, /usr/lib64/ccache/c++
>
> _OS_ : Fedora 25
>
> _CGAL_ : 4.9.1 installed with dnf
>
> Thanks !
>
> Tom.