The Kepler triangle is triangle with side lengths in proportion ,
where
is the golden ratio. It is therefore a reciprocal
proportion triangle. Surprisingly, it is also a right
triangle, which follows from the identity
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The Kepler triangle with side lengths , 1, and
has angles
(2)
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and area
(5)
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