Éléments de géométrie, par A. M. Legendre, avec additions et modifications, par M. A. Blanchet.

26 GEOMETRIE. PROPOSITION XVIII. PROBLEME. fig. 69. Connaissant le c6tc AB d'wu polyogone 7egulier de m cdtes, et le rayon CA da cercle circonscrit, trouYer la surface de ce polygone. Soient AB - a, CA —R et S Ia surface du polygone. On a": CD a2CV S ma X —; or CD = // _- I 4R2 a2 2 4 2 donc S -- V4. 4 Application. Cherchons la surface de l'hexagone regulier. On a a R, m= 6; donc 6RV//4R2-R2 3R2V3 S -- ----- 4 2 fig. 69. Remnarque. On pourrait aussi, au moyen des memes donnees, calculer la surface du polygone regulier inscrit de 2m cotes. En effet, soit M1 le milieu de l'arc AB, et tirons AM; la surface du polygone cherche (que nous designerons par S') se compose de 2nZ triangles egaux a ACM. AD RXa Or, ACM =CM X - 2 4 Ra X a mRa done S'- 27m X - -- 4 2 Cherchons comme application la surface du dodecagone regulier inscrit; on a -62 a=R, 7=6, d'ou S' 6 3R2. 9 7 2

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Éléments de géométrie, par A. M. Legendre, avec additions et modifications, par M. A. Blanchet.
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Legendre, A. M. (Adrien Marie), 1752-1833.
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Paris,: Firmin-Didot frères,
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