Geometry Review

We have used several simple facts here:

  1. A triangle inscribed in a semicircle, as shown below, is a right triangle.

    [Proof] | [Return to Archimedes' method]

  2. Given triangle inscribed in semicircle , as shown below, the central angle is twice the angle .

    [Proof] | [Return to Archimedes' method]

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Neal Carothers - carother@bgnet.bgsu.edu