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nine-point circle
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circle passing through nine significant concyclic points defined from the triangle
Wikidata facts
- Has part
- nine-point center
- Named after
- Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach
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- Commons category
- Nine-point circle
- discoverer or inventor
- Leonhard Euler
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
The nine points
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:
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