Olympic triangle be perfectly sharp, either, since it is a course. Traditionally the configuration of the triangle is an equilateral triangle (3 equal sides and 3 equal angles of 60 degrees) with a ratio of the windward leg to a reaching leg being 1:1. In that case the course length for the 9 legs described above is 9 times the length of the windward leg. The angle at each point of the triangle is 60 degrees. The windward leg is generally aligned with the average wind direction. Another configuration is a triangle with a right angle at the wing mark and 45
Three degrees of influence affect our friends' friends, and so on. However, across a broad set of empirical settings, using both observational and experimental methods, they observed that the effect seems, in many cases, to no longer be meaningful at a social horizon of three degrees. Christakis and Fowler examined phenomena from various domains, such as obesity, happiness, cooperation, and voting. Investigations by other groups have subsequently explored many other phenomena in this way (including crime, social learning, etc.). Influence dissipates after three degrees (to and from friends’ friends’ friends) for three reasons, Christakis and Fowler propose: Initial studies using observational data by Christakis