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Note on a Property of the Cycloid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2008

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The area of the triangle whose sides are a variable tangent to the cycloid, the tangent at the cusp and the tangent at the vertex is maximum when the point of contact of the variable tangent is the point of intersection of the cycloid and the generating circle at the cusp.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1932