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  2. Congruence (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The two triangles on the left are congruent. The third is similar to them. The last triangle is neither congruent nor similar to any of the others. Congruence permits alteration of some properties, such as location and orientation, but leaves others unchanged, like distances and angles.

  3. Parallel postulate - Wikipedia

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    The sum of the angles in every triangle is 180° (triangle postulate). There exists a triangle whose angles add up to 180°. The sum of the angles is the same for every triangle. There exists a pair of similar, but not congruent, triangles. Every triangle can be circumscribed.

  4. Euclidean geometry - Wikipedia

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    Taken as a physical description of space, postulate 2 (extending a line) asserts that space does not have holes or boundaries; postulate 4 (equality of right angles) says that space is isotropic and figures may be moved to any location while maintaining congruence; and postulate 5 (the parallel postulate) that space is flat (has no intrinsic ...

  5. Hilbert's axioms - Wikipedia

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    Old axiom II.4 is renamed as Theorem 5 and moved. Old axiom II.5 (Pasch's Axiom) is renumbered as II.4. V.2, the Axiom of Line Completeness, replaced: Axiom of completeness. To a system of points, straight lines, and planes, it is impossible to add other elements in such a manner that the system thus generalized shall form a new geometry ...

  6. 5-Con triangles - Wikipedia

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    The smallest 5-Con triangles with integral sides. In geometry, two triangles are said to be 5-Con or almost congruent if they are not congruent triangles but they are similar triangles and share two side lengths (of non-corresponding sides). The 5-Con triangles are important examples for understanding the solution of triangles. Indeed, knowing ...

  7. AA postulate - Wikipedia

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    In Euclidean geometry, the AA postulate states that two triangles are similar if they have two corresponding angles congruent. The AA postulate follows from the fact that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is always equal to 180°. By knowing two angles, such as 32° and 64° degrees, we know that the next angle is 84°, because 180 ...

  8. Euclid's Elements - Wikipedia

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    Book 1 contains 5 postulates and 5 common notions, and covers important topics of plane geometry such as the Pythagorean theorem, equality of angles and areas, parallelism, the sum of the angles in a triangle, and the construction of various geometric figures.

  9. Playfair's axiom - Wikipedia

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    The classical equivalence between Playfair's axiom and Euclid's fifth postulate collapses in the absence of triangle congruence. [18] This is shown by constructing a geometry that redefines angles in a way that respects Hilbert's axioms of incidence, order, and congruence, except for the Side-Angle-Side (SAS) congruence.