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Geometry

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isosceles_triangle

Draws an isosceles triangle defined by two of its vertices and

an angle. The vertices define one of the two sides equal in

length and the angle defines the angle between the two sides

of equal length. Like equilateral_triangle, you have

the option of storing the coordinates of the third point into a

CAS variable.

isosceles_triangle(point1, point2, angle)

Example:

isosceles_triangle(GA, GB, angle(GC, GA, GB)

defines an isosceles triangle such that one of the two sides of
equal length is AB, and the angle between the two sides of
equal length has a measure equal to that of ∡ ACB.

isopolygon

Draws a regular polygon given the first two vertices and the

number of sides, where the number of sides is greater than 1.

If the number of sides is 2, then the segment is drawn. You can

provide CAS variable names for storing the coordinates of the

calculated points in the order they were created. The

orientation of the polygon is counterclockwise.

isopolygon(point1, point2, realn), where realn
is an integer greater than 1.

Example

isopolygon(GA, GB, 6) draws a regular hexagon

whose first two vertices are the points A and B.

parallelogram

Draws a parallelogram given three of its vertices. The fourth

point is calculated automatically but is not defined

symbolically. As with most of the other polygon commands,

you can store the fourth point’s coordinates into a CAS

variable. The orientation of the parallelogram is

counterclockwise from the first point.

parallelogram(point1, point2, point3)

Example:

parallelogram(0,6,9+5i) draws a parallelogram

whose vertices are at (0, 0), (6, 0), (9, 5), and (3,5). The
coordinates of the last point are calculated automatically.