The Crystal Palace pane of glass (49 inches) as the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, thereby creating a triangle with a length-to-height ratio of 2.5:1, whose base (adjacent side) was 4 feet long. By mirroring this triangle he obtained the 8-foot-wide gables that formed the vertical faces at either end of the prism, each of which was 24' long. With this arrangement, Paxton could glaze the entire roof surface with identical panes that did not need to be trimmed. Paxton placed three of these 8' x 24' roof units side-by-side, horizontally supported by a grid of cast iron beams, which was held up
Incircle and excircles of a triangle The touchpoint opposite A is denoted "T", etc. This Gergonne triangle "TTT" is also known as the contact triangle or intouch triangle of "ABC". Its area is where formula_56, formula_57, formula_58 are the area, radius of the incircle and semiperimeter of the original triangle, and formula_7, formula_8, formula_9 are the side lengths of the original triangle. This is the same area as that of the extouch triangle. The three lines "AT", "BT" and "CT" intersect in a single point called the Gergonne point, denoted as "Ge" - "X(7)". The Gergonne point lies in the open orthocentroidal disk punctured at its