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4 unusual facts about Steiner point


Circumscribed circle

Steiner point = bc / (b2 − c2) : ca / (c2 − a2) : ab / (a2 − b2) = the nonvertex point of intersection of the circumcircle with the Steiner ellipse.

Minimum-weight triangulation

It is also possible to formulate a version of the point set or polygon triangulation problems in which one is allowed to add Steiner points, extra vertices, in order to reduce the total edge length of the resulting triangulations.

Steiner point

The Fermat point of a triangle, the solution to the Steiner tree problem for the three vertices of the triangle

Steiner tree problem, an algorithmic problem of finding extra "Steiner" points to add to a point set to reduce the cost of connecting the points



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