PRINCIPIA · THEOREM
Opposite angles of a cyclic quadrilateral are supplementary
Dependencies: Central angle is twice the inscribed angle on the same arc.
Statement
Let quadrilateral be inscribed in a circle (i.e. its four vertices all lie on the circle, ordered around the circle in sequence). Then any pair of opposite angles sums to :
Equivalently — pick any exterior angle, and the exterior angle = the opposite interior angle (the non-adjacent one). This is the "supplementary opposite angles" theorem for cyclic quadrilaterals, and it is also one of the most-used criteria for determining whether four points are concyclic.

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