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A Product of Chord Lengths in a Circle

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Let points be placed on a circle of radius 1 dividing it into equal arcs. If chords are drawn from one of the points to all of the others, then the product of the lengths of the chords is .

Contributed by: Jay Warendorff (March 2011)
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This Demonstration is based on:

T. E. Price, "Products of Chord Lengths of an Ellipse," Mathematics Magazine, 75(4), 2002 pp. 300–307.

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