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Warm Down Assignment 2 discussion

After solving the problem I found that it had a somewhat quick and neat solution (one that is generally quite pleasant to work with). The discussion after the problem mentioned that this can be generalised for any closed curve, and that this is Holditch's theorem. I thought this was quite interesting so I found a proof if anyone wants to give it a read.
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~troy/sflood/holditch.pdf

That's great!

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