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Part of 1998 Greece National Olympiad

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Sum of squares of segments is greater than twice the area

Source: Greece MO 1998

5/27/2011
For a regular nn-gon, let MM be the set of the lengths of the segments joining its vertices. Show that the sum of the squares of the elements of MM is greater than twice the area of the polygon.
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