CalcGallery

Geometry

Area, perimeter, volume, surface area, triangles and coordinate geometry, from the standard forms.

Geometry is the one part of this site where the formulas are not in dispute. A circle’s area has been πr² for two thousand years, and no source needs checking against a data sheet. What these pages add is getting the surrounding details right: the units, the edge cases and the shapes that look similar but are not. A cone’s surface area uses its slant height, not its vertical height, and using the wrong one returns a number that looks perfectly reasonable. Three sides of 1, 2 and 3 do not make a triangle, and a page that returns an answer anyway is lying to you. A hypotenuse shorter than one of the legs describes nothing at all. Every page here converts to metres internally and back out to whatever you are working in, so a radius in centimetres gives an area in square metres rather than a number that is right in the wrong unit. Where a formula is an approximation — the perimeter of an ellipse has no exact elementary form — the page says so rather than implying a precision the mathematics does not have.