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  • {{About|the greatest common divisor|the mathematics of space|Euclidean geometry}} ...wo line segments are equal and one eliminates the other."|Animation of the Euclidean algorithm for 252 and 105. The crossbars represent the units of 21, the gre ...
    106 KB (16,093 words) - 04:55, 13 June 2010
  • ...ircle]]s that are [[Tangent#Geometry|tangent]] to three given circles in a plane (Figure 1). [[Apollonius of Perga]] (ca. 262 {{nowrap|BC – ca.}} 190 B ...] (a [[point (geometry)|point]]) or expanded to infinite radius (a [[line (geometry)|line]]). Viète's approach, which uses simpler limiting cases to solve more ...
    85 KB (12,770 words) - 20:29, 28 May 2009
  • ...ion of [[symmetry]]. A [[symmetry group]] encodes symmetry features of a [[geometry|geometrical]] object: it consists of the set of transformations that leave ...830s. After contributions from other fields such as [[number theory]] and geometry, the group notion was generalized and firmly established around 1870. Mode ...
    88 KB (12,980 words) - 01:52, 12 August 2009
  • ...wadewit). I agree it is too fast, but I'm not sure how to fix it here yet (Geometry guy).--> ...round it.<!--tease us, tell us what does (Awadewit). Have I unteased you? (Geometry guy)--> ...
    67 KB (9,914 words) - 21:17, 11 August 2009