Therefore sign specialized keyboards and fonts, and to prevent compatibility issues, it's often substituted by a colon followed by a period (":.") even if it's considered more elegant to use the original therefore character in printing. Therefore sign In logical argument and mathematical proof, the therefore sign (∴) is generally used before a logical consequence, such as the conclusion of a syllogism. The symbol consists of three dots placed in an upright triangle and is read "therefore". It is encoded at . For common use in Microsoft Office hold the ALT key and type "8756". While it is not generally used in
Equilateral triangle triangles. In particular, the regular tetrahedron has four equilateral triangles for faces and can be considered the three-dimensional analogue of the shape. The plane can be tiled using equilateral triangles giving the triangular tiling. An equilateral triangle is easily constructed using a straightedge and compass, because 3 is a Fermat prime. Draw a straight line, and place the point of the compass on one end of the line, and swing an arc from that point to the other point of the line segment. Repeat with the other side of the line. Finally, connect the point where the two arcs intersect