Law of cosines . The power of the point with respect to the circle is equal to both and . Therefore, which is the law of cosines. Using algebraic measures for line segments (allowing negative numbers as lengths of segments) the case of obtuse angle () and acute angle () can be treated simultaneously. By using the law of sines and knowing that the angles of a triangle must sum to 180 degrees, we have the following system of equations (the three unknowns are the angles): Then, by using the third equation of the system, we obtain a system of two equations in
Integer triangle harmonic progression. This is because such angles have to be rational angles of the form with rational 0 < < 1. But all the angles of integer triangles must have rational cosines and this will occur only when = i.e. the integer triangle is equilateral. The square of each internal angle bisector of an integer triangle is rational, because the general triangle formula for the internal angle bisector of angle "A" is formula_2 where "s" is the semiperimeter (and likewise for the other angles' bisectors). Any altitude dropped from a vertex onto an opposite side or its extension will split