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Thus two arrows and in space represent the same free vector if they have the same magnitude and direction: that is, they are equivalent if the quadrilateral ABB ′ A ′ is a parallelogram.
Giordano Vitale, in his book Euclide restituo ( 1680, 1686 ), used the Saccheri quadrilateral to prove that if three points are equidistant on the base AB and the summit CD, then AB and CD are everywhere equidistant.
The fourth angle of a Lambert quadrilateral is acute if the geometry is hyperbolic, a right angle if the geometry is Euclidean or obtuse if the geometry is elliptic.
The summit angles of a Saccheri quadrilateral are acute if the geometry is hyperbolic, right angles if the geometry is Euclidean and obtuse angles if the geometry is elliptic.
It wasn't until 600 years later that Giordano Vitale made an advance on Khayyám in his book Euclide restituo ( 1680, 1686 ), when he used the quadrilateral to prove that if three points are equidistant on the base AB and the summit CD, then AB and CD are everywhere equidistant.
A simple ( non self-intersecting ) quadrilateral is a parallelogram if and only if any one of the following statements is true:
A simple ( non self-intersecting ) quadrilateral is a rhombus if and only if it is any one of the following:
Brahmagupta's formula may be seen as a formula in the half-lengths of the sides, but it also gives the area as a formula in the altitudes from the center to the sides, although if the quadrilateral does not contain the center, the altitude to the longest side must be taken as negative.
A convex quadrilateral is cyclic if and only if the four perpendicular bisectors to the sides are concurrent.
A convex quadrilateral ABCD is cyclic if and only if its opposite angles are supplementary, that is
Equivalently, a convex quadrilateral is cyclic if and only if each exterior angle is equal to the opposite interior angle.
That is, if this equation is satisfied in a convex quadrilateral, then it is a cyclic quadrilateral.
Yet another characterization is that a convex quadrilateral ABCD is cyclic if and only if

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The converse also holds: If the sum of the distances from a point in the interior of a quadrilateral to the sides is independent of the location of the point, then the quadrilateral is a parallelogram.
It is a property of cyclic quadrilaterals ( and ultimately of inscribed angles ) that opposite angles of a quadrilateral sum to 180 °.
Ptolemy's theorem expresses the product of the lengths of the two diagonals p and q of a cyclic quadrilateral as equal to the sum of the products of opposite sides:
The square-root of the sum of the two products of the sides and opposite sides of a non-unequal quadrilateral is the diagonal.
Copies of an arbitrary quadrilateral can form a tessellation with 2-fold rotational centers at the midpoints of all sides, and translational symmetry whose basis vectors are the diagonal of the quadrilateral or, equivalently, one of these and the sum or difference of the two.
As a consequence of the theorem, opposite angles of cyclic quadrilaterals sum to 180 °; conversely, any quadrilateral for which this is true can be inscribed in a circle.
The Grashof condition for a four-bar linkage states: If the sum of the shortest and longest link of a planar quadrilateral linkage is less than or equal to the sum of the remaining two links, then the shortest link can rotate fully with respect to a neighboring link.
: If a quadrilateral is inscribable in a circle then the product of the measures of its diagonals is equal to the sum of the products of the measures of the pairs of opposite sides.
The construction requires a quadrilateral with sides 2a, b, 2c, b. Any side must be less than the sum of the remaining sides, so the curve is empty ( at least in the real plane ) unless a < b + c and c < b + a.

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Saccheri himself based the whole of his long, heroic, and ultimately flawed proof of the parallel postulate around the quadrilateral and its three cases, proving many theorems about its properties along the way.
Furthermore the cyclic quadrilateral formed from the four nine-pont centers is homothetic to the reference cyclic quadrilateral ABCD by a factor of −< sup > 1 </ sup >/< sub > 2 </ sub > and its homothetic center ( N ) lies on the line connecting the circumcenter ( O ) to the anticenter ( M ) where ON = 2NM.
Another name is equilateral quadrilateral, since equilateral means that all of its sides are equal.
A trapezium in Proclus ' sense is a quadrilateral having one pair of its opposite sides parallel.
The medial surface is broad, irregularly quadrilateral, and presents at its middle and upper part a smooth oval facet, for articulation with the third cuneiform ; and behind this ( occasionally ) a smaller facet, for articulation with the navicular bone ; it is rough in the rest of its extent, for the attachment of strong interosseous ligaments.
It is also the only intermediate oval in the UK and unique in its quadrilateral shape.
The complete quadrangle, a configuration of four points and six lines in the projective plane ( left ) and its dual configuration, the complete quadrilateral, with four lines and six points ( right ).
Each of the corners on a quadrilateral fore-and-aft rigged sails has its own name:
While the main tomb took over eight years to build, it was also placed in centre of a Char Bagh Garden ( Four Gardens ), a Persian-style garden with quadrilateral layout and was the first of its kind in the South Asia region in such a scale.
The movement of a quadrilateral linkage can be classified into eight cases based on the dimensions of its four links.
If the quadrilateral is given with its four vertices A, B, C, and D in order, then the theorem states that:
If now diameter AF is drawn bisecting DC so that DF and CF are sides c of an inscribed decagon, Ptolemy's Theorem can again be applied – this time to cyclic quadrilateral ADFC with diameter d as one of its diagonals:

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* A Saccheri quadrilateral is a quadrilateral which has two sides of equal length, both perpendicular to a side called the base.
The other two angles of a Saccheri quadrilateral are called the summit angles and they have equal measure.
In Euclidean geometry, a kite is a quadrilateral whose four sides can be grouped into two pairs of equal-length sides that are adjacent to each other.
In Euclidean geometry, a parallelogram is a simple ( non self-intersecting ) quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides.
* Each diagonal divides the quadrilateral into two congruent triangles with the same orientation.
The shape of a quadrilateral is associated with two complex numbers p, q.
* a quadrilateral in which each diagonal bisects two opposite interior angles
# The two diagonals of a rhombus are perpendicular ; that is, a rhombus is an orthodiagonal quadrilateral.
In the case of non-cyclic quadrilaterals, Brahmagupta's formula can be extended by considering the measures of two opposite angles of the quadrilateral:
In any convex quadrilateral, the two diagonals together partition the quadrilateral into four triangles ; in a cyclic quadrilateral, opposite pairs of these four triangles are similar to each other.
A convex quadrilateral is a trapezoid if and only if it has two adjacent angles that are supplementary, that is, they add up 180 degrees.
The anterior surface, of smaller size, but also irregularly triangular, is divided by a vertical ridge into two facets, forming the fourth and fifth tarsometatarsal joints: the medial facet, quadrilateral in form, articulates with the fourth metatarsal ; the lateral, larger and more triangular, articulates with the fifth.
Imaging two triangles within cyclic quadrilateral with unequal sides, the two diagonals are the two bases.
The two segments of the two diagonals are two sides in a triangle ; the base the quadrilateral is the base of the triangle.
Each bone is roughly quadrilateral in form, and has two surfaces, four borders, and four angles.

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