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  2. Patterns in nature - Wikipedia

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    Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world. ... stress at right angles can create new cracks, at 90 degrees to the old ones.

  3. Right angle - Wikipedia

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    The straight lines which form right angles are called perpendicular. [8] Euclid uses right angles in definitions 11 and 12 to define acute angles (those smaller than a right angle) and obtuse angles (those greater than a right angle). [9] Two angles are called complementary if their sum is a right angle. [10]

  4. Spiral of Theodorus - Wikipedia

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    The spiral is started with an isosceles right triangle, with each leg having unit length.Another right triangle (which is the only automedian right triangle) is formed, with one leg being the hypotenuse of the prior right triangle (with length the square root of 2) and the other leg having length of 1; the length of the hypotenuse of this second right triangle is the square root of 3.

  5. Right triangle - Wikipedia

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    A right triangle ABC with its right angle at C, hypotenuse c, and legs a and b,. A right triangle or right-angled triangle, sometimes called an orthogonal triangle or rectangular triangle, is a triangle in which two sides are perpendicular, forming a right angle (1 ⁄ 4 turn or 90 degrees).

  6. Golden spiral - Wikipedia

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    The polar equation for a golden spiral is the same as for other logarithmic spirals, but with a special value of the growth factor b: [10] = or = ⁡ (/), with e being the base of natural logarithms, a being the initial radius of the spiral, and b such that when θ is a right angle (a quarter turn in either direction): =.

  7. Parallel postulate - Wikipedia

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    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. If three angles of a quadrilateral are right angles, then the fourth angle is also a right angle. There exists a quadrilateral in which all angles are right angles, that is, a rectangle.

  8. Non-Euclidean geometry - Wikipedia

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    The summit angles of a Saccheri quadrilateral are acute if the geometry is hyperbolic, right angles if the geometry is Euclidean and obtuse angles if the geometry is elliptic. The sum of the measures of the angles of any triangle is less than 180° if the geometry is hyperbolic, equal to 180° if the geometry is Euclidean, and greater than 180 ...

  9. Foundations of geometry - Wikipedia

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    If three angles of a quadrilateral are right angles, then the fourth angle is also a right angle. (Alexis-Claude Clairaut, 1741; Johann Heinrich Lambert, 1766) There exists a quadrilateral in which all angles are right angles. (Geralamo Saccheri, 1733) Wallis' postulate. On a given finite straight line it is always possible to construct a ...