8 Mar
2007
8 Mar
'07
10:25 p.m.
THE pedal triangle, connecting feet of altitudes, by the Fermat principle -- think of ray of light being reflected around. R. On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Henry Baker wrote:
If you inscribe a triangle within another triangle, so that the inscribed triangle vertices actually touch the 3 sides of the larger triangle, what is the shape of the inscribed triangle of _minimum perimeter_ ? Is it the tangent points of the inscribed circle?
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