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When the area is at least as large as the circumcircle of the points, the solution is any circle of that area surrounding the points. For smaller areas, the optimal curve will be a circular triangle with the three points as its vertices, and with circular arcs of equal radii as its sides, down to the area at which one of the three interior ...
The subset of the Reuleaux triangle consisting of points belonging to three or more diameters is the interior of the larger of these two triangles; it has a larger area than the set of three-diameter points of any other curve of constant width. [16] Centrally symmetric shapes inside and outside a Reuleaux triangle, used to measure its asymmetry
Circular segment - the part of the sector that remains after removing the triangle formed by the center of the circle and the two endpoints of the circular arc on the boundary. Scale of chords; Ptolemy's table of chords; Holditch's theorem, for a chord rotating in a convex closed curve; Circle graph; Exsecant and excosecant
Solution of triangles (Latin: solutio triangulorum) is the main trigonometric problem of finding the characteristics of a triangle (angles and lengths of sides), when some of these are known. The triangle can be located on a plane or on a sphere. Applications requiring triangle solutions include geodesy, astronomy, construction, and navigation.
The three perpendicular bisectors meet in a single point, the triangle's circumcenter; this point is the center of the circumcircle, the circle passing through all three vertices. [20] Thales' theorem implies that if the circumcenter is located on the side of the triangle, then the angle opposite that side is a right angle. [21]
The Nagel point is the isotomic conjugate of the Gergonne point. The Nagel point, the centroid, and the incenter are collinear on a line called the Nagel line. The incenter is the Nagel point of the medial triangle; [2] [3] equivalently, the Nagel point is the incenter of the anticomplementary triangle.
The points (α, β) are plotted as with Newton's diagram method but the line α+β=n, where n is the degree of the curve, is added to form a triangle which contains the diagram. This method considers all lines which bound the smallest convex polygon which contains the plotted points (see convex hull ).
The same reciprocal relation exists between a point P outside the circle and the secant line joining its two points of tangency. If a point P is exterior to a circle with center O, and if the tangent lines from P touch the circle at points T and S, then ∠TPS and ∠TOS are supplementary (sum to 180°).