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Morley’s diagram generalised

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

M. D. Fox
Affiliation:
2 Learn Road, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire CV31 3PA
J. R. Goggins
Affiliation:
10 Bowling Green Road, Whiteinch, Glasgow G14 9NU

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Morley’s theorem is well-known: if we trisect the interior angles of any triangle A0A1A2, then the common point of each pair of trisectors adjacent to a side is a vertex of the Morley triangle, M0M1M2, which is always equilateral (Figure 1). Less well-known is that the two triangles are in perspective, that is, the three lines AiMi, concur at a point M.

The pairs of trisectors further from the sides meet at W0, W1 and W2, the vertices of the anti-Morley (or perhaps the Worley) triangle. It, too, is in perspective with A0A1A2, the centre of perspective being W. Also, the Morley and anti-Morley triangles have a centre of perspective X, the points M, W and X being collinear.

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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2003

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