Equilateral triangle Equilateral triangle In geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides are equal. In the familiar Euclidean geometry, an equilateral triangle is also equiangular; that is, all three internal angles are also congruent to each other and are each 60°. It is also a regular polygon, so it is also referred to as a regular triangle. Denoting the common length of the sides of the equilateral triangle as "a", we can determine using the Pythagorean theorem that: Denoting the radius of the circumscribed circle as "R", we can determine using trigonometry that: Many of these quantities
Sierpinski triangle the Sierpinski triangle. The Sierpinski triangle may be constructed from an equilateral triangle by repeated removal of triangular subsets: Each removed triangle (a "trema") is topologically an open set. This process of recursively removing triangles is an example of a finite subdivision rule. The same sequence of shapes, converging to the Sierpinski triangle, can alternatively be generated by the following steps: Note that this infinite process is not dependent upon the starting shape being a triangle—it is just clearer that way. The first few steps starting, for example, from a square also tend towards a Sierpinski triangle. Michael Barnsley used