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gives the coordinates of the point. It also solves the optimization problem to find the point with a minimal sum of squared distances from the sides. The
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If ABC is a right triangle with right angle at A, this statement needs to be modified by dropping the reference to AA' since the point A' does not exist.
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Beban-Brkić, J.; Volenec, V.; Kolar-Begović, Z.; Kolar-Šuper, R. (2013), "On Gergonne point of the triangle in isotropic plane",
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An algebraic way to find the symmedian point is to express the triangle by three linear equations in two unknowns given by the
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the symmedian point appears as the sixth point, X(6). For a non-equilateral triangle, it lies in the open
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of a triangle is the same as the symmedian point of the triangle's
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called its existence "one of the crown jewels of modern geometry".
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is a symmedian, as can be seen by drawing the circle with center
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Episodes in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Euclidean Geometry
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punctured at its own center, and could be any point therein.
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proved the existence of the symmedian point in 1873, and
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Intersection of the three symmedian lines of a triangle
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The symmedian point of a triangle with side lengths
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Symmedian point
Lemoine Point Conservation Area

medians
angle bisectors
symmedians
incenter
centroid
geometry
symmedians
medians
angle bisectors
Ross Honsberger
Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers
orthocentroidal disk
trilinear coordinates
hesse normal forms
overdetermined system
least squares method
Gergonne point
contact triangle
tangent lines
tangential triangle
Brianchon's theorem
Émile Lemoine
Ernst Wilhelm Grebe
Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier
symmedian

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