geometry[EulerCircle] - find the Euler circle of a given triangle
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Calling Sequence
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EulerCircle(Elc, T, 'centername'=cn)
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Parameters
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T
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triangle
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Elc
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the name of the Euler circle
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'centername' = cn
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(optional) where cn is a name of the center of the Euler's circle.
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Description
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The Euler circle Elc of triangle T is the circumcircle of the medial triangle of T
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Note that it was O. Terquem who named this circle the nine-point circle, and this is the name commonly used in the English-speaking countries. Some French geometers refer to it as Euler's circle, and German geometers usually call it Feuerbach's circle.
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If the third optional argument is given and is of the form 'centername' = cn where cn is name, cn will be the name of the center of Elc.
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For a detailed description of the Euler circle Elc, use the routine detail (i.e., detail(Elc))
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Note that the routine only works if the vertices of triangle T are known.
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The command with(geometry,Eulercircle) allows the use of the abbreviated form of this command.
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Examples
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assume that the names of the horizontal and vertical axes are _x and _y, respectively
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