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Lozenge


Lozenge

A lozenge is an equilateral parallelogram whose acute angles are 45 degrees. Sometimes, the restriction to 45 degrees is dropped, and it is required only that two opposite angles are acute and the other two obtuse. The term rhombus is commonly used for an arbitrary equilateral parallelogram.

The following formulas apply to the 45 degrees lozenge. Its area for side length a is

 A=1/2sqrt(2)a^2,
(1)

its diagonals have lengths

p=sqrt(2-sqrt(2))a
(2)
q=sqrt(2+sqrt(2))a,
(3)

and it has inradius

 r=1/4asqrt(2).
(4)

For an arbitrary rhombus of side length a, the area is

 A=1/2pq=a^2sintheta,
(5)

where p and q are its diagonal lengths and theta is an interior angle.


See also

Kite, Parallelogram, Quadrilateral, Rhombus

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Lozenge." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Lozenge.html

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