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noun
Any of the three circles inside a given triangle such that each circle is tangent to the others and to two sides of the triangle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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History
Named after Gian Francesco Malfatti, who made early studies of the problem of constructing these circles in the mistaken belief that they would have the largest possible total area of any three disjoint circles within the triangle.
