Sylvester's triangle problem
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Theorem
Consider three pairwise distinct vectors of equal length , and each of them acting on the same point thus creating the points , and . Those points form the triangle with as the center of its circumcircle. Now let denote the orthocenter of the triangle, then connection vector is equal to the sum of the three vectors:
Furthermore, since the points and are located on the Euler line together with the centroid the following equation holds:
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Generalisation
If the condition of equal length in Sylvester's theorem is dropped and one considers merely three arbitrary pairwise distinct vectors, then the equation above does not hold anymore. However, the relation with the centroid remains true, that is:
This follows directly from the definition of the centroid for a finite set of points in , which also yields a version for vectors acting on :
Here is the centroid of the vertices of the polygon generated by the vectors acting on .

