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Euler's line

In geometry, Euler's line, named in honor of Leonhard Euler (pronounced "oiler", not "yooler"!) is the line passing through the orthocenter, the circumcenter, and the centroid of a triangle. Euler showed that in any triangle, those three points are collinear.



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