Putnam 2003 B5
- Session B
Let , and be equidistant points on the circumference of a circle of unit radius centered at , and let be any point in the circle's interior. Let be the distance from to , respectively. Show that there is a triangle with side lengths , and that the area of this triangle depends only on the distance from to .
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Solutions
Human solution Solution 1 by Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng
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