Hexagon on the circumcircle of an acute triangle at the six points (including three triangle vertices) where the extended altitudes of the triangle meet the circumcircle, then the area of the hexagon is twice the area of the triangle. Let ABCDEF be a hexagon formed by six tangent lines of a conic section. Then Brianchon's theorem states that the three main diagonals AD, BE, and CF intersect at a single point. In a hexagon that is tangential to a circle and that has consecutive sides "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", and "f", If an equilateral triangle is constructed externally on each
Magic hexagon gave a less intricate constructive proof. The order-3 magic hexagon has been published many times as a 'new' discovery. An early reference, and possibly the first discoverer, is Ernst von Haselberg (1887). The numbers in the hexagon are consecutive, and run from 1 to formula_1. Hence their sum is a triangular number, namely There are "r" = (2"n" − 1) rows running along any given direction (E-W, NE-SW, or NW-SE). Each of these rows sum up to the same number "M". Therefore: This can be rewritten as Multiplying throughout by 32 gives which shows that formula_6 must be an integer,