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How many convex polygons can be made from $n$ identical right angle triangles?

Whilst working on a Tangram problem, I came across the need to find the total number of convex shapes that can be produced from $16$ identical (isosceles) right angle triangles (since the Tangram can ...
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An open triangle problem in plane geometry

Some years ago, I asked some 'famous' people in an advanced Plane Geometry forum about the following: Let $ABC$ be arbitrary triangle, how can one construct a point $P$ in the plane such that $P$ is ...
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Two triangles have the same centroid theorem

Let $\triangle ABC$ and $\triangle A'B'C'$ be two triangles. The line through $A$ and perpendicular to $AA'$ meets the line through $B'$ and perpendicular to $BB'$ at $A_b$; The line through $A$ and ...
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What is the minimum number of triangle centers sufficient to unambiguously describe a triangle?

I am looking for a minimal number of properties describing a triangle so that these properties are invariant to the choice of a Cartesian coordinate system as well as to the order in which the ...
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