The 3 distances of a point from each of the sides of the triangle.
If point P is (signed) distance Ta from side BC, Tb from side AC and Tc from side AB then its exact
trilinear coordinates are written as Ta:Tb:Tc. A point on the same side of BC as vertex A has positive distance, 0 if on the line and a negative distance if on the other side of that line; similarly for the other sides. So in the diagram here, Ta and Tb are positive and Tc is negative.
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A point P is represented by the signed areas of the three sub-triangles made by joining P to
vertices A, B and C, called the exact barycentric coordinates and
written as {area of PBC, area of PAC, area of PBA} often written as {α, β, γ} .
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Its radius is one half of the circumcircle through all 3 vertices.
Feuerbach's Theorem of 1822 states that the nine-point circle is tangent to the incircle and the three excircles.
Many other ETC centers lie on the Euler line. A list is given on Eric W Weisstein's "Euler Line" Mathworld page
- see Links and References at the foot of this page.
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