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Revision as of 18:03, 7 October 2007
Heron's formula (sometimes called Hero's formula) is a formula for finding the area of a triangle given only the three side lengths.
Definition
For any triangle with side lengths , the area
can be found using the following formula:
where the semi-perimeter .
Proof