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Does a pentagon have 5 right angles or 3?

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Pentagons in normal (Euclidean) geometry can have at most three right angles, and the other two will be obtuse.

However, in hyperbolic geometry, it is possible to construct a pentagon with 5 right angles, which is called a rectapentagon.

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