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Hopefully you are familiar with the pythagorean which is:
Where a, b, and d are sides of a right triangle and d is the hypotenuse.
Now what happens if we decide to change this right angle? Let's find out. So if we decrease this right angle we result in a acute triangle. So the length of sides a and b are the same but side d has new length. Let's call this c.
Quite obviously , this results in so ultimately we have the first part of the pythagorean inequality which is: if then triangle abc is acute.
What if we increase this angle. By similar methods we arrive at for obtuse triangle abc.
So to recap the pythagorean inequality is:
For right triangle:
For acute triangles:
For obtuse triangles: