Dividing a circle into areas lines (there are two points on one side and one on the other). So the recurrence can be expressed as which can be easily reduced to using the sums of the first formula_3 natural numbers and the first formula_3 squares, this combines to Finally which yields The lemma asserts that the number of regions is maximal if all "inner" intersections of chords are simple (exactly two chords pass through each point of intersection in the interior). This will be the case if the points on the circle are chosen "in general position". Under this assumption of "generic intersection", the number
Area of a circle trigonometry, uses the coarea formula. Define a function formula_10 by formula_11. Note ρ is a Lipschitz function whose gradient is a unit vector formula_12 (almost everywhere). Let "D" be the disc formula_13 in formula_14. We will show that formula_15, where formula_16 is the two-dimensional Lebesgue measure in formula_14. We shall assume that the one-dimensional Hausdorff measure of the circle formula_18 is formula_19, the circumference of the circle of radius "r". (This can be taken as the definition of circumference.) Then, by the coarea formula, Similar to the onion proof outlined above, we could exploit calculus in a different way in