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Obtuse Triangle
A set of three points equidistant around a point is called an equilateral triangle. In geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides are equal in length. The angles in an equilateral triangle are also equal, each measuring 60 degrees.
Every triangle has three medians, just like it has three altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors. The medians of a triangle are the segments drawn from the vertices to the midpoints of the opposite sides. The point of intersection of all three medians is called the centroid of the triangle. The centroid of a triangle is twice as far from a given vertex than it is from the midpoint to which the median from that vertex goes. For example, if a median is drawn from vertex A to midpoint M through centroid C, the length of AC is twice the length of CM. The centroid is 2/3 of the way from a given vertex to the opposite midpoint. The centroid is always on the interior of the triangle.
Its technical name is the incenter; it's also the center of the largest circle that can be inscribed within the triangle. (It is also equidistant from the nearest point along each of the three sides, if that's not obvious.)
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