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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]
Farey sunburst of order 6, with 1 interior (red) and 96 boundary (green) points giving an area of 1 + 96 / 2 − 1 = 48 [1]. In geometry, Pick's theorem provides a formula for the area of a simple polygon with integer vertex coordinates, in terms of the number of integer points within it and on its boundary.
In either case, the area formula is correct in absolute value. This is commonly called the shoelace formula or surveyor's formula. [6] The area A of a simple polygon can also be computed if the lengths of the sides, a 1, a 2, ..., a n and the exterior angles, θ 1, θ 2, ..., θ n are known, from:
The region inside the polygon (its interior) forms a bounded set [2] topologically equivalent to an open disk by the Jordan–Schönflies theorem, [10] with a finite but nonzero area. [11] The polygon itself is topologically equivalent to a circle, [12] and the region outside (the exterior) is an unbounded connected open set, with infinite area ...
A non-convex regular polygon is a regular star polygon. The most common example is the pentagram, which has the same vertices as a pentagon, but connects alternating vertices. For an n-sided star polygon, the Schläfli symbol is modified to indicate the density or "starriness" m of the polygon, as {n/m}.
Heron's formula can be obtained from Brahmagupta's formula or Bretschneider's formula by setting one of the sides of the quadrilateral to zero. Brahmagupta's formula gives the area K {\displaystyle K} of a cyclic quadrilateral whose sides have lengths a , {\displaystyle a,} b , {\displaystyle b,} c , {\displaystyle c ...
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
The quotients formed by the area of these polygons divided by the square of the circle radius can be made arbitrarily close to π as the number of polygon sides becomes large, proving that the area inside the circle of radius r is πr 2, π being defined as the ratio of the circumference to the diameter (C/d).