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The Unique Triangle that Covers Every Triangle of Perimeter Two

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Edited by Richard Walker, Wednesday 6 May 2026 at 22:50

In 1999 Zoltán Füredi and John E. Wetzel, two covering problems meisters, found a triangle with a remarkable property.[1]

It can cover[2] each and every triangle of perimeter 2. It is the smallest region (not just the smallest triangle) that can do this and it is unique. I made a drawing of it using GeoGebra and fitted some sample triangles with perimeter 2 inside it

The length of cap a times cap b is two solidus three , prefix angle of cap a times cap b times cap c equals 60 postfix degree , the length of cap a times cap b is 1.00285 and the perimeter of cap a times cap b times cap c is about 2.823 .

[1] The smallest convex cover for triangles of perimeter two, Geometriae Dedicata, 2000

[2] To be precise, it can cover a congruent copy of any such triangle.

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