2020 Singapore Mathematics Project Festival Viviani’s Theorem and its Related Problems
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Noted that the sum of all the triangles with the same vertex
P equals to the area of the polygon and
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is indeed the distance between the pair of parallel sides. Since the sum of distances between any pair
of opposite parallel sides is constant, it follows that the sum of all pairwise sums between the pairs of
parallel sides, is also constant. However, the converse of this generalization is not true. A counterexample
that can be easily found is an
equilateral hexagon, which does not necessarily have opposite sides parallel
but still have constant sum of distances from an arbitrary point.
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