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Given the positions and masses of a sequence of objects, write a program to compute their...

Given the positions and masses of a sequence of objects, write a program to compute their center-of-mass, or centroid. The centroid is the average position of the n objects, weighted by mass. If the positions and masses are given by (xi, yi, mi), then the centroid (x, y, m) is given by

m = m1 + m2 + ... + mn

x =(m1x1 + ... + mnxn) / m

y = (m1y1 + ... +mnyn) / m

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