Segol Segol Segol ( ) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign that is represented by three dots forming an upside down equilateral triangle "ֶ ". As such, it resembles an upside down therefore sign (a because sign) underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it indicates the phoneme which is similar to "e" in the English word sound in "sell" and is transliterated as an "e". In Modern Hebrew, segol does the Hataf Segol ( , "Reduced Segol"). The reduced (or "ħataf") niqqud exist for segol, patah, and kamatz which contain a shva next to it. The following table contains the pronunciation
Calabi triangle Calabi triangle The Calabi triangle is a special triangle found by Eugenio Calabi and defined by its property of having three different placements for the largest square that it contains. It is an obtuse isosceles triangle with an irrational but algebraic ratio between the lengths of its sides and its base. Consider the largest square that can be placed in an arbitrary triangle. It may be that such a square could be positioned in the triangle in more than one way. If the largest such square can be positioned in three different ways, then the triangle is either an equilateral