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Each of these numbers have been made proportional to the area of an equilateral triangle, the sides of which are calculated using a simple formula.
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Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
This equilateral triangle connects three brilliant stars — Arcturus in Boötes, Spica in Virgo and Denebola in Leo, all of them fixtures of the spring night sky in the Northern Hemisphere.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
This large, nearly equilateral triangle is composed of three of the brightest stars in the sky, each belonging to its own constellation.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2025
These three bright stars form an equilateral triangle that's visible throughout the season.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
In a nutshell, there’s a perfect equilateral triangle formed by the centers of the time dial, the sub-seconds dial and the big date aperture.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2024
Primary colors are red, blue, and yellow, and are arranged in an equilateral triangle on the circular wheel.
—Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
But constructing our perfectly symmetric equilateral triangle—a regular polygon—required some elegant legwork.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
The arrangement of this array mimics the fractal known as the Sierpiński gasket, which has the overall shape of an equilateral triangle divided into smaller identical triangles as well as triangular holes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Aug. 2020
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Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
This equilateral triangle connects three brilliant stars — Arcturus in Boötes, Spica in Virgo and Denebola in Leo, all of them fixtures of the spring night sky in the Northern Hemisphere.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
This large, nearly equilateral triangle is composed of three of the brightest stars in the sky, each belonging to its own constellation.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2025
These three bright stars form an equilateral triangle that's visible throughout the season.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
In a nutshell, there’s a perfect equilateral triangle formed by the centers of the time dial, the sub-seconds dial and the big date aperture.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2024
Primary colors are red, blue, and yellow, and are arranged in an equilateral triangle on the circular wheel.
—Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
But constructing our perfectly symmetric equilateral triangle—a regular polygon—required some elegant legwork.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
The arrangement of this array mimics the fractal known as the Sierpiński gasket, which has the overall shape of an equilateral triangle divided into smaller identical triangles as well as triangular holes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Aug. 2020
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“Equilateral triangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/equilateral%20triangle. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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