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Undid revision 1164472737 by 73.254.227.172 (talk) unconvincing explanation for blowing up decimal digits unnecessarily. We have an exact formula; more digits in its approximation doesn't help make it more exact. |
Undid revision 1164551631 by David Eppstein (talk) We have an exact formula for pi but still get 6 significant digits on the page because 3.1416 is a bad approximation. If necessity of precision is the metric by which approximations should be measured, then either noticable artifacts of poorness or sufficiency of discrepancy should be the measure, by which it should have 6 or not more than 3 sig. digits, in neither case 5. |
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By the [[Blaschke–Lebesgue theorem]], the Reuleaux triangle has the smallest possible area of any curve of given constant width. This area is
:<math>\frac{1}{2}(\pi - \sqrt3)s^2 \approx 0.
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The angles made by each pair of arcs at the corners of a Reuleaux triangle are all equal to 120°. This is the sharpest possible angle at any [[vertex (geometry)|vertex]] of any curve of constant width.<ref name="gardner" /> Additionally, among the curves of constant width, the Reuleaux triangle is the one with both the largest and the smallest inscribed equilateral triangles.<ref>{{harvtxt|Gruber|1983|page=76}}</ref> The largest equilateral triangle inscribed in a Reuleaux triangle is the one connecting its three corners, and the smallest one is the one connecting the three [[midpoint]]s of its sides. The subset of the Reuleaux triangle consisting of points belonging to three or more diameters is the interior of the larger of these two triangles; it has a larger area than the set of three-diameter points of any other curve of constant width.<ref>{{citation
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