Relation To The Circumcircle
In the identity
the common value of the three fractions is actually the diameter of the triangle's circumcircle. It can be shown that this quantity is equal to
where S is the area of the triangle and s is the semiperimeter
The second equality above is essentially Heron's formula.
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