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Area of a hyperbolic geodesic polygon

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In the curvature-minus-one Poincare half-plane model, a geodesic polygon with n sides and interior angles α1​,…,αn​ has area
(n−2)π−∑j=1n​αj​.
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This is the polygonal Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

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