Let be a unit square. What is the area of the largest semicircle that can be inscribed inside it?
If your answer is of the form , where , and are integers and is square-free, write your answer as .
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The ends of such a semi-circle will touch to a pair of adjoining sides BC, CD symmetrically at E ,H
and the other pair AB, AD tangentially at F, G.
So the diameter EH will be parallel to the diagonal BD and the center on the other diagonal AC. The sketch taken from the link and solution is due to the link given above.