Talk:Menelaus' theorem

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This title was chosen after doing a google count of variations:

• Theorem of Menelaus: 185 hits
• Menelaus theorem: 2180 hits
• Menelaus' theorem: 2180 hits
• Menelaus's theorem: 552 hits

Update: actually, it seems like Google does not distinguish between "Menelaus' theorem" and "Menelaus theorem", so item 2 above probably includes counts of Menelaus' as well. Now I think "Menelaus' theorem" is a better title since it has consistency with how theorems are generally named.--Tokek 06:44, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Update2: it seems like one query can also count other results, e.g. searching for "menelaus theorem" results in also counting "menelaus's theorem" so the google way isn't a very good way of finding out what is the most popular. I will create redirects for now of the four that I think are reasonable titles.