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  2. Method of exhaustion - Wikipedia

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    This amounts to finding an area of a region by first comparing it to the area of a second region, which can be "exhausted" so that its area becomes arbitrarily close to the true area. The proof involves assuming that the true area is greater than the second area, proving that assertion false, assuming it is less than the second area, then ...

  3. Shoelace formula - Wikipedia

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    Shoelace scheme for determining the area of a polygon with point coordinates (,),..., (,). 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]

  4. Brahmagupta's formula - Wikipedia

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    giving the basic form of Brahmagupta's formula. It follows from the latter equation that the area of a cyclic quadrilateral is the maximum possible area for any quadrilateral with the given side lengths. A related formula, which was proved by Coolidge, also gives the area of a general convex

  5. Pascal's theorem - Wikipedia

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    In projective geometry, Pascal's theorem (also known as the hexagrammum mysticum theorem, Latin for mystical hexagram) states that if six arbitrary points are chosen on a conic (which may be an ellipse, parabola or hyperbola in an appropriate affine plane) and joined by line segments in any order to form a hexagon, then the three pairs of ...

  6. Packing problems - Wikipedia

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    The optimal packing of 15 circles in a square Optimal solutions have been proven for n ≤ 30. Packing circles in a rectangle; Packing circles in an isosceles right triangle - good estimates are known for n < 300. Packing circles in an equilateral triangle - Optimal solutions are known for n < 13, and conjectures are available for n < 28. [14]

  7. Apothem - Wikipedia

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    Apothem of a hexagon Graphs of side, s; apothem, a; and area, A of regular polygons of n sides and circumradius 1, with the base, b of a rectangle with the same area. The green line shows the case n = 6. The apothem (sometimes abbreviated as apo [1]) of a regular polygon is a line segment from the center to the midpoint of one of its sides.

  8. Geodesic polyhedron - Wikipedia

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    Class II (b=c): {3,q+} b,b are easier to see from the dual polyhedron {q,3} with q-gonal faces first divided into triangles with a central point, and then all edges are divided into b sub-edges. Class III : {3, q +} b , c have nonzero unequal values for b , c , and exist in chiral pairs.

  9. Tangential quadrilateral - Wikipedia

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    [11] [10]: p.11 One way to see this is as a limiting case of Brianchon's theorem, which states that a hexagon all of whose sides are tangent to a single conic section has three diagonals that meet at a point. From a tangential quadrilateral, one can form a hexagon with two 180° angles, by placing two new vertices at two opposite points of ...