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
Isosceles triangle an equilateral triangle. The first solutions of the problem with unbounded oscillations were found in the isosceles three-body problem. Long before isosceles triangles were studied by the ancient Greek mathematicians, the practitioners of Ancient Egyptian mathematics and Babylonian mathematics knew how to calculate their area. Problems of this type are included in the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus and Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. The theorem that the base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal appears as Proposition I.5 in Euclid. This result has been called the "pons asinorum" (the bridge of asses) or the isosceles triangle theorem. Rival explanations for this name