Right triangle Right triangle A right triangle (American English) or right-angled triangle (British English) is a triangle in which one angle is a right angle (that is, a 90-degree angle). The relation between the sides and angles of a right triangle is the basis for trigonometry. The side opposite the right angle is called the "hypotenuse" (side "c" in the figure). The sides adjacent to the right angle are called "legs" (or "catheti", singular: "cathetus"). Side "a" may be identified as the side "adjacent to angle B" and "opposed to" (or "opposite") "angle A", while side "b" is the side "adjacent to
Fermat's right triangle theorem of a right triangle with square area. By dividing by any common factors, one can assume that this triangle is primitive and from the known form of all primitive Pythagorean triples, one can set formula_23, formula_24, and formula_25, by which the problem is transformed into finding relatively prime integers formula_26 and formula_27 (one of which is even) such that formula_28 is square. The four linear factors formula_26, formula_27, formula_31, and formula_32 are relatively prime and therefore must themselves be squares; let formula_33 and formula_34. Both formula_35 and formula_36 must be odd since exactly one of formula_26 or formula_27 is even