A semicircle in a square. What’s the missing length?
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With the points labelled as above, angle is the angle in a semi-circle and so is . Therefore, rotating the square by (either clockwise or anti-clockwise) rotates line segment so that it is parallel to line segment . It also still runs between two sides of the square, since rotating the square leaves the square looking the same. Therefore, line segments and have the same length, and so the missing length is .