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A Stunning Equilateral Triangle Problem

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Edited by Richard Walker, Wednesday 15 April 2026 at 22:10

I saw this problem on Mind Your Decisions.

At left is an equilateral triangle. From an arbitrary point in its interior we draw line segments to its vertices, making angles alpha , beta and gamma as shown. If now we construct a second triangle (right) whose sides are equal in length to these three line segments, as indicated by the tick marks—What will the angles of the new triangle be?

I have never seen this before and have not viewed the solution. But I have worked out what the answer must be, just not proved it yet. And it's a truly beautiful result.

I wonder if it can be generalised to non-equalateral triangle? Or to a square?

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