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In geometry, Bretschneider's formula is the following expression for the area of a general convex quadrilateral: : :: Here, ''a'', ''b'', ''c'', ''d'' are the sides of the quadrilateral, ''s'' is the semiperimeter, and and are two opposite angles. Bretschneider's formula works on any convex quadrilateral, whether it is cyclic or not. The German mathematician Carl Anton Bretschneider discovered the formula in 1842. The formula was also derived in the same year by the German mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt. == Proof of Bretschneider's formula == Denote the area of the quadrilateral by ''K''. Then we have : Therefore : The Law of Cosines implies that : because both sides equal the square of the length of the diagonal ''BD''. This can be rewritten as : Adding this to the above formula for yields : Following the same steps as in Brahmagupta's formula, this can be written as : Introducing the semiperimeter : the above becomes : and Bretschneider's formula follows. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bretschneider's formula」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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