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When I asked myself the last question of Chapter 4, I decided to try a few triangles and see whether they satisfied conditions (*) and (**). Would you believe it, the very first triangle I picked did the job! It was the triangle T with the sides \(\sqrt{2}, \sqrt{3}, \sqrt{4}\) (see Figure 5.1).
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Soifer, A. (2009). Excursion in Trigonometry. In: How Does One Cut a Triangle?. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74652-4_5
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