A stadium, also called a discorectangle, obround, or sausage body, is a geometric figure consisting of a rectangle with top and bottom lengths whose ends are capped off with semicircles of radius
. The area of a stadium is therefore given
by
(1)
|
and the perimeter by
(2)
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Defining the ratio
gives the alternate forms
(3)
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and
(4)
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The term is most commonly encountered in the context of stadium billiards.
The stadium is implemented in the Wolfram Language as StadiumShape[lbrx1, y1
,
x2,
y2
, r].
A stadium of revolution might be termed a capsule.