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Triangle Constructions with Three Located Points

by William Wernick

This article originally appeared in:
Mathematics Magazine
September, 1982

Subject classification(s): Geometry and Topology | Plane Geometry | Triangles
Applicable Course(s): 4.9 Geometry

The authors show how to use some of the data from a triangle to reconstruct the original triangle. See also the 1996 paper Update on William Wernick's 'Triangle Constructions with Three Located Points' by Leroy F. Meyers.


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