Well, to begin with the two sides were co-habiting the space quite happily, until the hypotenuse moved in and began pushing the two sides apart as it took up more and more space. The angle between the two originally happy sides became more and more obtuse, with acute insults being fired between the original sides and the hypotenuse. Eventually Pythagoras stepped in and established a 90° angle between the original lines as part of a court order, while the hypotenuse was fixed evenly between the two lines.
Or perhaps upon a more serious note.
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Sin = opposite/hypotenuse
cos = adjacent/hypotenuse
tan = opposite/adjacent
This however only applies to right angled triangles
For other triangles.
Area = 1/2 ab sin C
a^2 = b^2 + c^2 Where a is the hypotenuse
Sin A / a = Sin B/b = Sin C/c
And I have no clue what any of that means... sorry! lol!
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Yes a triangle consists of three sides and three angles.
Pythagorus
3 sides and 3 angles
A triangle with no equal sides or angles is known as a scalene triangle. Equilateral triangles, by contrast, have three equal sides and three 60 degree angles.
A polygon has the same number of sides and angles.