Calculate area of a cyclic quadrilateral with given side lengths

Given four positive integers A, B, C, and D representing the length of sides of a Cyclic Quadrilateral, the task is to find the area of the Cyclic Quadrilateral.

Examples:

Input: A = 10, B = 15, C = 20, D = 25
Output: 273.861

Input: A = 10, B = 30, C = 50, D = 20
Output: 443.706

Approach: The given problem can be solved based on the following observations:

• A cyclic quadrilateral is a quadrilateral whose vertices all lie on a single circle. The circle is called the circumcircle or circumscribed circle, and the vertices are said to be concyclic.

• In the above image above r is the radius of the circumcircle and A, B, C, and D are the lengths of the sides PQ, QR, RS, and SP respectively.
• The area of the quadrilateral is given by Bretschneider’s formula is:

where, A, B, C, and D are the sides of the triangle and
α and γ are the opposite angles of the quadrilateral.

Since, the sum of opposite angles of the quadrilateral is 180 degree. Therefore, the value of cos(180/2) = cos(90) = 0.

Therefore, the formula for finding the area reduces to .

Therefore, the idea is to print the value of  as the resultant area of the given quadrilateral.

Below is the implementation of the above approach:

C++

// C++ program for the above approach

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

// Function to find the area
// of cyclic quadrilateral
float calculateArea(float A, float B,
                    float C, float D)
{
    // Stores the value of
    // half of the perimeter
    float S = (A + B + C + D) / 2;

    // Stores area of cyclic quadrilateral
    float area = sqrt((S - A) * (S - B)
                      * (S - C) * (S - D));

    // Return the resultant area
    return area;
}

// Driver Code
int main()
{
    float A = 10;
    float B = 15;
    float C = 20;
    float D = 25;
    cout << calculateArea(A, B, C, D);

    return 0;
}

Java

// Java program for the above approach
import java.io.*;

class GFG{

// Function to find the area
// of cyclic quadrilateral
static float calculateArea(float A, float B,
                           float C, float D)
{

    // Stores the value of
    // half of the perimeter
    float S = (A + B + C + D) / 2;

    // Stores area of cyclic quadrilateral
    float area = (float)Math.sqrt((S - A) * (S - B) *
                                  (S - C) * (S - D));

    // Return the resultant area
    return area;
}

// Driver code
public static void main (String[] args)
{
    float A = 10;
    float B = 15;
    float C = 20;
    float D = 25;

    System.out.println(calculateArea(A, B, C, D));

}
}

// This code is contributed by Ankita saini

Python3

# Python3 program for the above approach
from math import sqrt

# Function to find the area
# of cyclic quadrilateral
def calculateArea(A, B, C, D):

    # Stores the value of
    # half of the perimeter
    S = (A + B + C + D) // 2

    # Stores area of cyclic quadrilateral
    area = sqrt((S - A) * (S - B) *
                (S - C) * (S - D))

    # Return the resultant area
    return area

# Driver Code
if __name__ == '__main__':

    A = 10
    B = 15
    C = 20
    D = 25

    print(round(calculateArea(A, B, C, D), 3))

# This code is contributed by mohit kumar 29

C#

// C# program for the above approach
using System;

class GFG{

// Function to find the area
// of cyclic quadrilateral
static float calculateArea(float A, float B,
                           float C, float D)
{

    // Stores the value of
    // half of the perimeter
    float S = (A + B + C + D) / 2;

    // Stores area of cyclic quadrilateral
    float area = (float)Math.Sqrt((S - A) * (S - B) *
                                  (S - C) * (S - D));

    // Return the resultant area
    return area;
}

// Driver Code
static public void Main()
{
    float A = 10;
    float B = 15;
    float C = 20;
    float D = 25;

    Console.Write(calculateArea(A, B, C, D));
}
}

// This code is contributed by code_hunt

Javascript

<script>
// java script  program for the above approach

// Function to find the area
//of cyclic quadrilateral
function calculateArea(A, B, C, D){

    //Stores the value of
    // half of the perimeter
    let S = (A + B + C + D) /2

    // Stores area of cyclic quadrilateral
    let area = Math.sqrt((S - A) * (S - B) *
                (S - C) * (S - D))

    //Return the resultant area
    return area;
    }

// Driver Code


    let  A = 10;
    let B = 15;
    let C = 20;
    let D = 25;

    document.write(calculateArea(A, B, C, D).toFixed(3))

//this code is contributed by sravan kumar
</script>

Output:

273.861

Time Complexity: O(1)
Auxiliary Space: O(1)