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  2. Acute and obtuse triangles - Wikipedia

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    In the case of an acute triangle, all three of these segments lie entirely in the triangle's interior, and so they intersect in the interior. But for an obtuse triangle, the altitudes from the two acute angles intersect only the extensions of the opposite sides. These altitudes fall entirely outside the triangle, resulting in their intersection ...

  3. Solution of triangles - Wikipedia

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    Since no triangle can have two obtuse angles, γ is an acute angle and the solution γ = arcsin D is unique. If b < c, the angle γ may be acute: γ = arcsin D or obtuse: γ ′ = 180° − γ. The figure on right shows the point C, the side b and the angle γ as the first solution, and the point C ′, side b ′ and the angle γ ′ as the ...

  4. Lambert quadrilateral - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a Lambert quadrilateral (also known as Ibn al-Haytham–Lambert quadrilateral), [1] [2] is a quadrilateral in which three of its angles are right angles. Historically, the fourth angle of a Lambert quadrilateral was of considerable interest since if it could be shown to be a right angle, then the Euclidean parallel postulate could ...

  5. File:Angle obtuse acute straight.svg - Wikipedia

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    Create EPS $ euk2eps Angle_obtuse_acute_straight.euk; Outline fonts $ eps2eps -dNOCACHE Angle_obtuse_acute_straight.eps Angle_obtuse_acute_straight2.eps

  6. Internal and external angles - Wikipedia

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    The interior angle concept can be extended in a consistent way to crossed polygons such as star polygons by using the concept of directed angles.In general, the interior angle sum in degrees of any closed polygon, including crossed (self-intersecting) ones, is then given by 180(n – 2k)°, where n is the number of vertices, and the strictly positive integer k is the number of total (360 ...

  7. Triangulation - Wikipedia

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    In China, Pei Xiu (224–271) identified "measuring right angles and acute angles" as the fifth of his six principles for accurate map-making, necessary to accurately establish distances, [5] while Liu Hui (c. 263) gives a version of the calculation above, for measuring perpendicular distances to inaccessible places.

  8. Trigonometric functions - Wikipedia

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    Basis of trigonometry: if two right triangles have equal acute angles, they are similar, so their corresponding side lengths are proportional.. In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) [1] are real functions which relate an angle of a right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths.

  9. Euclidean geometry - Wikipedia

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    Angles whose sum is a right angle are called complementary. Complementary angles are formed when a ray shares the same vertex and is pointed in a direction that is in between the two original rays that form the right angle. The number of rays in between the two original rays is infinite. Angles whose sum is a straight angle are supplementary ...