Along these lines,
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one could get carried away. Here is one I like okay:
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And now I realize I have actually seen the following in the calculus text we use:
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(Of course, nobody needs much of a picture to understand the above equality.) How far can you go with this? I hoped to find something interesting by exploiting these analogs...
but all I obtain from considering general N-gons is the rather lame identity that follows. (And it's derivation from the picture is hardly without need of explanation.)
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I suppose it is a decent exercise for a student to find the common ratio of triangle areas...
Rick