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Re: Triangulating an inscribed polygon
Posted:
Mar 27, 1998 6:47 AM
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If I recall correctly, this problem with a proof appears in one of the
Mathematical Gems books by Doug Hofstadter (I think no. 2) published by
the MAA.
Michael de Villiers
On 26 Mar 1998 wolk@ccm.umanitoba.c wrote:
> famedini@tin.it wrote:
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> >If you triangulate a polygon inscribed in a circle, it doesn't matter
>
> >the way you do it, the sum of the radii of the circles inscribed in
> >the triangles will be constant, not depending on the way you
> >triangulated the polygon.
> >That seems to be true, but I don't know how to proove it.
> >Help me!
>
> I first saw that problem about five years ago, in a book review
> published in the American Mathematical Monthly. The review quoted
> a few problems from the book, including this problem. The book
> title was something like "The Chinese Garden Geometry Problems"
> -- I hope someone in this group can provide the correct title,
> because that book is probably where you want to look this up
> to find a geometric proof.
> ---
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