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Inner Napoleon Circle


InnerNapoleonCircle

The inner Napoleon circle, a term coined here for the first time, is the circumcircle of the inner Napoleon triangle. It has center at the triangle centroid G (and is thus concentric with the outer Napoleon circle) and radius

 R_O=(sqrt(a^2+b^2+c^2-4Deltasqrt(3)))/(3sqrt(2)),
(1)

where Delta is the area of the reference triangle.

It has circle function

l=-(sqrt(3)S+3S_A)/(9bc)
(2)
=-(2sin(A+1/3pi))/(3sqrt(3)),
(3)

where S and S_A are Conway triangle notation. This function corresponds to the first isodynamic point S, which is Kimberling center X_(15).

The only Kimberling center lying on it is X_(13), the first Fermat point.

The following table gives pairs of inverse Kimberling centers with respect to the inner Napoleon circle.

centernameinverse centername
X_(14)second Fermat pointX_(15)first isodynamic point
X_(616)anticomplement of X_(13)X_(618)complement of X_(13)
X_(617)anticomplement of X_(14)X_(623)complement of X_(15)
X_(619)complement of X_(14)X_(621)anticomplement of X_(15)
X_(1080)intercept of Euler line and line X_(13)X_(98)X_(1316)fifth Moses intersection

See also

Inner Napoleon Triangle, Outer Napoleon Circle

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Inner Napoleon Circle." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/InnerNapoleonCircle.html

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