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Midsquare Quadrilateral


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A midsquare quadrilateral is a convex quadrilateral whose diagonals are equal in length and perpendicular. It is therefore both an equidiagonal quadrilateral and an orthodiagonal quadrangle (Josefsson 2014, p. 137).

A convex quadrilateral is midsquare iff its Varignon parallelogram is a square, or equivalently iff its bimedians are equal in length and perpendicular (Josefsson 2014, p. 137). If p is the common polygon diagonal length and m is the common bimedian length, then its area is (Josefsson 2014, p. 138)

 K=1/2p^2=m^2.

A midsquare quadrilateral need not be a square. For example, the isosceles trapezoid with vertices (0,0), (3,0), (2,2), and (1,2) in boundary order has equal perpendicular diagonals of length 2sqrt(2). A midsquare quadrilateral is a square iff its diagonals bisect each other (Josefsson 2014, p. 138).


See also

Bimedian, Equidiagonal Quadrilateral, Orthodiagonal Quadrangle, Quadrilateral, Square, Varignon Parallelogram

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References

Josefsson, M. "Properties of Equidiagonal Quadrilaterals." Forum Geom. 14, 129-144, 2014. https://dynamicmathematicslearning.com/FG201412-josefsson-equidiagonal-quad.pdf.

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

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