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Calculation for area of segment

Updated: 9/20/2023
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Presuming you mean a segment of a circle, its area is in simple proportion to its proportion of a full circle. e.g. a 53 deg segment has 53/360 the area of the whole circle.

If you refer to a segment of a plane figure, then this may be done by dividing the figure into triangles, and then applying the various 'area of a triangle' formulae to each of the smaller triangles.

[Back in the bad old days before computers or calculators, I did a subdivision of an irregular block of land into three. In those days done by using 12-figure log tables!

Thanks to those who have invented calculators.

In those times, even a standard deviation would take up to a half-hour or so.]

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