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  2. Pythagorean theorem - Wikipedia

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    Let ABC be a triangle with side lengths a, b, and c, with a 2 + b 2 = c 2. Construct a second triangle with sides of length a and b containing a right angle. By the Pythagorean theorem, it follows that the hypotenuse of this triangle has length c = √ a 2 + b 2, the same as the hypotenuse of the first triangle.

  3. Triangle - Wikipedia

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    A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry. The corners, also called vertices, are zero- dimensional points while the sides connecting them, also called edges, are one-dimensional line segments. A triangle has three internal angles, each one bounded by a pair of adjacent edges; the sum of ...

  4. Sierpiński triangle - Wikipedia

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    The canonical Sierpiński triangle uses an equilateral triangle with a base parallel to the horizontal axis (first image). Shrink the triangle to ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ height and ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ width, make three copies, and position the three shrunken triangles so that each triangle touches the two other triangles at a corner (image 2).

  5. Hypotenuse - Wikipedia

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    Hypotenuse. A right-angled triangle and its hypotenuse. In geometry, a hypotenuse is the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle. [1] It is the longest side of any such triangle; the two other shorter sides of such a triangle are called catheti or legs. The length of the hypotenuse can be found using the Pythagorean theorem, which ...

  6. Equilateral triangle - Wikipedia

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    Internal angle (degrees) 60°. In geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides have the same length. In the familiar Euclidean geometry, an equilateral triangle is also equiangular; that is, all three internal angles are also congruent to each other and are each 60°.

  7. Octahedron - Wikipedia

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    The surface area of a regular octahedron can be ascertained by summing all of its eight equilateral triangles, whereas its volume is twice the volume of a square pyramid; if the edge length is , [11] =, =. The radius of a circumscribed sphere (one that touches the octahedron at all vertices), the radius of an inscribed sphere (one that tangent ...

  8. Tetrahedron - Wikipedia

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    There exist tetrahedra having integer-valued edge lengths, face areas and volume. These are called Heronian tetrahedra. One example has one edge of 896, the opposite edge of 990 and the other four edges of 1073; two faces are isosceles triangles with areas of 436 800 and the other two are isosceles with areas of 47 120, while the volume is 124 ...

  9. Solution of triangles - Wikipedia

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    Solution of triangles (Latin: solutio triangulorum) is the main trigonometric problem of finding the characteristics of a triangle (angles and lengths of sides), when some of these are known. The triangle can be located on a plane or on a sphere. Applications requiring triangle solutions include geodesy, astronomy, construction, and navigation.