Inscribed angle its intersection points equals half of the central angle subtended by the chord. See also Tangent lines to circles. The inscribed angle theorem is used in many proofs of elementary Euclidean geometry of the plane. A special case of the theorem is Thales' theorem, which states that the angle subtended by a diameter is always 90°, i.e., a right angle. As a consequence of the theorem, opposite angles of cyclic quadrilaterals sum to 180°; conversely, any quadrilateral for which this is true can be inscribed in a circle. As another example, the inscribed angle theorem is the basis for several
Right angle to vectors. The presence of a right angle in a triangle is the defining factor for right triangles, making the right angle basic to trigonometry. A rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles. A square has four right angles, in addition to equal-length sides. The Pythagorean theorem states how to determine when a triangle is a right triangle. In Unicode, the symbol for a right angle is . It should not be confused with the similarly shaped symbol . Related symbols are , , and . In diagrams, the fact that an angle is a right angle is usually