Area enclosed by two chords and a circular arc

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Take a circle of radius , a vertex on its circumference, and two chords from symmetric about the diameter through . If their angle is , choose the arc between their other endpoints that does not contain . The area bounded by the two chords and that arc is . To calculate it, set and the other endpoints to . Their triangle has area , and the adjoining circular segment, of central angle , has area . The sum gives the formula, including the limiting zero-area and full-disk cases.

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