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For example, Pythagorean triples (such as 3, 4 and 5), represent right triangles whose three vertices are all integer distances apart.
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Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
Billiard tables shaped like acute and right triangles have periodic trajectories.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
In the early 1990s, Fred Holt at the University of Washington and Gregory Galperin and his collaborators at Moscow State University independently showed that every right triangle has periodic orbits.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
The space is also composed of simple geometric forms: two terraces and a patio are shaped like half circles, and rooms in one wing end on the 45-degree angles of right triangles, giving pointed views.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2023
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Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
Billiard tables shaped like acute and right triangles have periodic trajectories.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
In the early 1990s, Fred Holt at the University of Washington and Gregory Galperin and his collaborators at Moscow State University independently showed that every right triangle has periodic orbits.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
The space is also composed of simple geometric forms: two terraces and a patio are shaped like half circles, and rooms in one wing end on the 45-degree angles of right triangles, giving pointed views.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2023
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“Right triangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/right%20triangle. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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