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In geometry, the semiperimeter of a polygon is half its perimeter. Although it has such a simple derivation from the perimeter, the semiperimeter appears frequently enough in formulas for triangles and other figures that it is given a separate name. When the semiperimeter occurs as part of a formula, it is typically denoted by the letter s.
In this case, the semiperimeter will equal the longest side, causing Heron's formula to equal zero. If one of three given lengths is greater than the sum of the other two, then they violate the triangle inequality and do not describe the sides of a Euclidean triangle. In this case, Heron's formula gives an imaginary result.
where s, the semiperimeter, is defined to be = + + +. This formula generalizes Heron's formula for the area of a triangle. A triangle may be regarded as a ...
where (h, k) is the center of the ellipse in Cartesian coordinates, in which an arbitrary point is given by (x, y).The semi-major axis is the mean value of the maximum and minimum distances and of the ellipse from a focus — that is, of the distances from a focus to the endpoints of the major axis
where r is the inradius, and s is the semiperimeter (in fact, this formula holds for all tangential polygons), and [15]: Lemma 2 = = = where ,, are the radii of the excircles tangent to sides a, b, c respectively. We also have
A triangle with sides <, semiperimeter = (+ +), area, altitude opposite the longest side, circumradius, inradius, exradii,, tangent to ,, respectively, and medians,, is a right triangle if and only if any one of the statements in the following six categories is true. Each of them is thus also a property of any right triangle.
The parameters most commonly appearing in triangle inequalities are: the side lengths a, b, and c;; the semiperimeter s = (a + b + c) / 2 (half the perimeter p);; the angle measures A, B, and C of the angles of the vertices opposite the respective sides a, b, and c (with the vertices denoted with the same symbols as their angle measures);
The midpoint polygon of a triangle is called the medial triangle.It shares the same centroid and medians with the original triangle. The perimeter of the medial triangle equals the semiperimeter of the original triangle, and the area is one quarter of the area of the original triangle.