The Lucas Circles of a Triangle
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The first step in our story is to inscribe a square PQRS in a given triangle ABC. Since the square has four vertices and the triangle has only three sides, some side of the triangle must contain two of the vertices of the square (Figure 1). How to construct such a square is an interesting problem in its own right and it gives us a chance to dust off a very useful observation about similar figures.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The American Mathematical Monthly
دوره 108 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001