Area
As for all parallelograms, the area K of a rhombus is the product of its base and its height. The base is simply any side length a, and the height h is the perpendicular distance between any two non-adjacent sides:
The area can also be expressed as the base squared times the sine of any angle:
or as half the product of the diagonals p, q:
or as the semiperimeter times the radius of the circle inscribed in the rhombus (inradius):
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