A portion of a circle is cut off by a straight line not passing through the centre, creating two segments. How to find the area of the smaller segment?
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Welcome to Math Stack Exchange. Is it the shape of a slice of pie minus a triangle? – J. W. Tanner Jun 26 '19 at 21:54
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It can have any area from $0$ to $\pi R^2/2$ where $R $ is the radius of the circle. – user Jun 26 '19 at 21:58
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1Have you tried looking up “area of circular segment” on the Internet? I get pages and pages of explanations and formulas. – amd Jun 26 '19 at 22:25