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A transformation of the form is area-preserving: any region is transformed to a region with the same area, as may be confirmed by applying it to a rectangle with sides parallel to the axes. It is also a symmetry of : any point on the curve is mapped to another point on the curve. Moving the "slide" controller shows the effect of a continuous family of such transformations between the identity and acting on the region under the curve over the interval . With the checkbox you can see the effect on a rectangle placed under the curve.

If denotes the area under the curve over an interval , the area-preserving and symmetry properties of tell us that . This is seen by varying "slide" through its range. Thus

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That is,

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