malfatti circle

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What does malfatti circle mean?

Any of the three circles inside a given triangle such that each circle is tangent to the others and to two sides of the triangle.

Where does malfatti circle come from?

Named after Gian Francesco Malfatti, who made early studies of the problem of constructing these circles in the mistaken belief that they would have the largest possible total area of any three disjoint circles within the triangle.

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