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Geometry Definition

Orthocentric system

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Definition

A set SS of points of the Euclidean plane is an orthocentric system if both conditions hold.

  1. SS has exactly four points.
  2. Some three points of SS form a triangle whose orthocentre is the fourth point.

Remarks

Condition 1 forces the triangle in condition 2 to have no right angle. For a right triangle the orthocentre is the vertex of the right angle, so only three distinct points would remain.

Example: let A=(0,2)A = (0, 2), B=(−1,0)B = (-1, 0), C=(1,0)C = (1, 0) and H=(0,12)H = (0, \frac{1}{2}). The altitude from AA is the line x=0x = 0. The altitude from BB is perpendicular to C−A=(1,−2)C - A = (1, -2), so it is the line (x+1)−2y=0(x + 1) - 2y = 0, which meets x=0x = 0 at (0,12)(0, \frac{1}{2}). So HH is the orthocentre of ABCABC, and {A,B,C,H}\set{A, B, C, H} is an orthocentric system.

Non-example: (0,0)(0, 0), (1,0)(1, 0), (0,1)(0, 1) and (1,1)(1, 1). The orthocentre of each three of them is a vertex of that triangle, since each such triangle has a right angle, so condition 2 fails.

If {A,B,C,H}\set{A, B, C, H} is an orthocentric system, then each point is the orthocentre of the other three. Indeed, HH is the orthocentre of ABCABC when AH⊥BCAH \perp BC, BH⊥CABH \perp CA and CH⊥ABCH \perp AB. The same three relations say that AA is the orthocentre of HBCHBC, and similarly for BB and CC.

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  1. Affine space concept
  2. Altitude of a triangle concept
  3. Collinear points concept
  4. Line concept
  5. Triangle concept
  6. Triangle definition
  7. Orthocentre definition
  8. Orthocentric system definition

Further reading

  1. Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthocentric_system
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