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  2. Heron's formula - Wikipedia

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    Heron's formula. A triangle with sides a, b, and c. In geometry, Heron's formula (or Hero's formula) gives the area of a triangle in terms of the three side lengths ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Letting ⁠ ⁠ be the semiperimeter of the triangle, the area ⁠ ⁠ is [1] It is named after first-century engineer Heron of Alexandria (or Hero) who ...

  3. Frustum - Wikipedia

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    Frustum. In geometry, a frustum (Latin for 'morsel'); [a] (pl.: frusta or frustums) is the portion of a solid (normally a pyramid or a cone) that lies between two parallel planes cutting the solid. In the case of a pyramid, the base faces are polygonal and the side faces are trapezoidal. A right frustum is a right pyramid or a right cone ...

  4. Pythagorean theorem - Wikipedia

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    The area of the trapezoid can be calculated to be half the area of the square, that is 1 2 ( b + a ) 2 . {\displaystyle {\frac {1}{2}}(b+a)^{2}.} The inner square is similarly halved, and there are only two triangles so the proof proceeds as above except for a factor of 1 2 {\displaystyle {\frac {1}{2}}} , which is removed by multiplying by two ...

  5. Trapezoid - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a trapezoid (/ ˈtræpəzɔɪd /) in North American English, or trapezium (/ trəˈpiːziəm /) in British English, [1][2] is a quadrilateral that has one pair of parallel sides. The parallel sides are called the bases of the trapezoid. The other two sides are called the legs (or the lateral sides) if they are not parallel ...

  6. Shoelace formula - Wikipedia

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    The shoelace formula, also known as Gauss's area formula and the surveyor's formula, [1] is a mathematical algorithm to determine the area of a simple polygon whose vertices are described by their Cartesian coordinates in the plane. [2] It is called the shoelace formula because of the constant cross-multiplying for the coordinates making up the ...

  7. Brahmagupta's formula - Wikipedia

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    This formula generalizes Heron's formula for the area of a triangle. A triangle may be regarded as a quadrilateral with one side of length zero. From this perspective, as d approaches zero, a cyclic quadrilateral converges into a cyclic triangle (all triangles are cyclic), and Brahmagupta's formula simplifies to Heron's formula.

  8. Geometric series - Wikipedia

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    (BOTTOM) Aggregate the resulting n+1 non-overlapping trapezoids into a single non-overlapping trapezoid and calculate its area to find a corresponding partial sum. That area is equal to the outermost triangle minus the empty tip triangle: S n = (1−r n+1) / (1−r), which approaches the limit S/a = 1/(1−r) as n approaches infinity.

  9. Centroid - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and physics, the centroid, also known as geometric center or center of figure, of a plane figure or solid figure is the arithmetic mean position of all the points in the surface of the figure. [further explanation needed] The same definition extends to any object in - dimensional Euclidean space. [1]