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The nine-point circle is tangent to the incircle and excircles. In geometry, the nine-point circle is a circle that can be constructed for any given triangle. It is so named because it passes through nine significant concyclic points defined from the triangle. These nine points are: [28] [29] The midpoint of each side of the triangle; The foot ...
An equilateral triangle is a triangle that has three equal sides. It is a special case of an isosceles triangle in the modern definition, stating that an isosceles triangle is defined at least as having two equal sides. [1] Based on the modern definition, this leads to an equilateral triangle in which one of the three sides may be considered ...
Circle packing in an equilateral triangle is a packing problem in discrete mathematics where the objective is to pack n unit circles into the smallest possible equilateral triangle. Optimal solutions are known for n < 13 and for any triangular number of circles, and conjectures are available for n < 28. [1] [2] [3]
The difference in area for an equilateral triangle is small, just over 1%, [2] but as Howard Eves pointed out, for an isosceles triangle with a very sharp apex, the optimal circles (stacked one atop each other above the base of the triangle) have nearly twice the area of the Malfatti circles. [3] In fact, the Malfatti circles are never optimal.
A proof from Euclid's Elements that, given a line segment, one may construct an equilateral triangle that includes the segment as one of its sides: an equilateral triangle ΑΒΓ is made by drawing circles Δ and Ε centered on the points Α and Β, and taking one intersection of the circles as the third vertex of the triangle.
When the outer Soddy circle has positive curvature, both Soddy centers are equal detour points. When the outer Soddy circle has negative curvature, its center is the isoperimetric point: the triangles ABP 2, BCP 2, and CAP 2 have equal perimeter. In geometry, the Soddy circles of a triangle are two circles associated with any triangle in the
If the blue circles are equal, the green circles are also equal. In geometry, the equal incircles theorem derives from a Japanese Sangaku, and pertains to the following construction: a series of rays are drawn from a given point to a given line such that the inscribed circles of the triangles formed by adjacent rays and the base line are equal.
Two triangles are said to be poristic triangles if they have the same incircle and circumcircle. Given a circle with Center O and radius R and another circle with center I and radius r, there are an infinite number of triangles ABC with Circle O(R) as circumcircle and I(r) as incircle if and only if OI 2 = R 2 − 2Rr. These triangles form a ...