Isosceles triangle the hypotenuse to the right-angled vertex) divides the right triangle into two isosceles triangles. This is because the midpoint of the hypotenuse is the center of the circumcircle of the right triangle, and each of the two triangles created by the partition has two equal radii as two of its sides. Similarly, an acute triangle can be partitioned into three isosceles triangles by segments from its circumcenter, but this method does not work for obtuse triangles, because the circumcenter lies outside the triangle. Generalizing the partition of an acute triangle, any cyclic polygon that contains the center of its circumscribed
Automedian triangle much more recent. The problem of characterizing automedian triangles was posed in the late 19th century in the "Educational Times" (in French) by Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg, and solved there with the formula 2"a" = "b" + "c" by William John Greenstreet. Apart from the trivial cases of equilateral triangles, the triangle with side lengths 17, 13, and 7 is the smallest (by area or perimeter) automedian triangle with integer side lengths. There is only one automedian right triangle, the triangle with side lengths proportional to 1, , and . This triangle is the second triangle in the spiral of