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Salinon
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thumb|right|300px|The salinon (red) and the circle (blue) have the same area.

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Subclass of
geometric shape
Image
Salinon.svg
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Commons category
Salinon
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area
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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Construction
  • Properties
  • Area
  • Arbelos
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|right|300px|The salinon (red) and the circle (blue) have the same area.

The salinon (meaning 'salt-cellar' in Greek) is a geometrical figure that consists of four semicircles. It was first introduced in the Book of Lemmas, a work attributed to Archimedes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salinon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.