Area
As is true more generally for any orthodiagonal quadrilateral, the area K of a kite may be calculated as half the product of the lengths of the diagonals p and q:
Alternatively, if a and b are the lengths of two unequal sides, and θ is the angle between unequal sides, then the area is
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