Re: triangles in circles
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- Subject: [mg26850] Re: triangles in circles
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:13:27 -0500 (EST)
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Tom,
n = 5;
ptlist = Table[{Cos[i 2 \[Pi]/n], Sin[i 2 \[Pi]/n]}, {i, 1, n}];
lnlist =
ReplaceList[ptlist, {___, a_, ___, b_, ___, c_, ___} :> {a, b, c, a}];
Show[Graphics[{
Circle[{0, 0}, 1],
PointSize[0.02], Point /@ ptlist,
Line /@ lnlist
}], AspectRatio -> Automatic]
Length[lnlist]
10
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Allan
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"Tom De Vries" <tdevries at shop.westworld.ca> wrote in message
news:94ma2t$3pi at smc.vnet.net...
> Hello all,
>
> I'm teaching a high school math class and we are doing permutations and
> combinations. One of the "standard" questions is ..."given a certain
number
> of points located around a circle, how many triangles can be formed...."
>
> The simple line below creates a circle with 5 points arranged around it.
> Could someone help me with a way to generate the lists of points that
would
> create all the triangles. I know that for more points it would get kind
of
> messy, but I wanted to actually draw all the triangles as I thought it
might
> be an interesting graphic...
>
> Thanks for any help you might have....
>
>
> n = 5;
>
> ptlist = Table[{Cos[i 2 \[Pi]/n], Sin[i 2 \[Pi]/n]}, {i, 1, n}];
>
> Show[Graphics[{
> Circle[{0, 0}, 1],
> {PointSize[0.02], Point /@ ptlist}
> }], AspectRatio -> Automatic]
>
> Sincerely, Tom De Vries
>
>