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Euler's Triangle Inequality via Proofs Without Words
by Roger B. Nelsen
This article originally appeared in:Mathematics Magazine
February, 2008
Subject classification(s): Plane Geometry | Geometry and Topology
Applicable Course(s): 4.9 Geometry
Three lemmas of interest in themselves from which Euler's Triangle Inequality follows are proved wordlessly.
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