Incircle and excircles
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incircle-and-excircles-178-2269727
title:
Incircle and excircles
text:
In geometry, the incircle or inscribed circle of a triangle is the largest circle that can be contained in the triangle; it touches the three sides. The center of the incircle is a triangle center called the triangle's incenter. An excircle or escribed circle of the triangle is a circle lying outside the triangle, tangent to one of its sides and tangent to the extensions of the other two. Every triangle has three distinct excircles, each tangent to one of the triangle's sides. The center of the
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Circles tangent to all three sides of a triangle
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incircle_and_excircles
date created:
2002-12-24T08:08:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T12:45:13Z
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