Can you find the radius of the circle inscribed in this Reuleaux triangle? A Reuleaux triangle comprises three arcs of circles with centers A, B, and C. The radius of each of these circles is equal to 6cm.
Previous iteration: #744872 (brute force answers in #745445 are correct, I'll give the reasoned answer later tonight, hopefully).
Also, check out @0xbitcoiner's problem: #746482
I love the Reuleaux triangle so much. It's used in industry to drill squared holes! How crazy is that!!
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So, each segment of the ABC inscribed triangle is 6cm because of how the Reuleaux triangle is composed. That allows us to get the center position from any vertex, for it's equal to 2/3 of the triangle's height , thus:
So, the radius of the inscribed circle is:
So in numbers:
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We have a winner!
Oh yes, those square holes. I had seen a little sketch of that thing, never saw it in action. Cool!
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Thank you Sr! :) I love geometry. I made pen-and-paper game based on geometry, would share it with you if you are interested.
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Sure thing. Feel free to share it here in ~science if that would make sense...
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Ok! Will upload it there a later! :)
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The inscribed equilateral triangle has sides of length 6.
The perpendicular has length 5, because Pythagoras .
The extension of the perpendicular must be 1, because .
Platon says the sides of an equilateral triangle's half have ratio .
Therefore, the radius of the inscribed circle is .
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I think there is an error in your Pythagoras calculation...
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Doh, that makes it much less elegant :) Thanks for checking and the hint.
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I didn't check further, but this small difference on the perpendicular probably explains the small mismatch at the end with the value given by @didiplaywell.
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I thought of a way to answer the puzzles without showing the answer. We can use 'SN's private messages' to send the answer to you. The stacker who answers you privately leaves a comment on the post saying that they've answered.
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I think a GitHub PR is forthcoming, solving this in a clean way.
Not sure i wanna act as intermediary between stackers and other stackers, curating answers. It would take me too much time. It's nice to have it in the open so people can learn from eachother.
Thanks for thinking about this though ;)
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Update:
Reasoned answer for previous iteration: see #746568
Fun fact about Reuleaux triangles: they have a constant width, meaning that for every pair of parallel supporting lines (two lines of the same slope that both touch the shape without crossing through it) the two lines have the same Euclidean distance from each other, regardless of the orientation of these lines, leading to this kind of surprising behavior (short YT clip)
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