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by gloftus
195 days ago
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Worth noting that the hyperbolic triangle in the article contains "points at infinity" which are not actually a part of the hyperbolic plane, so this is really an "improper triangle" as the article notes. One could construct a similar improper triangle in the Euclidean plane that consisted of two parallel lines meeting at infinity. Such a triangle would still have 180 degrees of internal angle but it's area and perimeter would be infinite. |
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Either they are overlapping which violates the definition of a triangle, or they don't and the parallel lines always maintain the same distance X to each other and consequently maintain distance X at infinity (let's say X=1, bc you can just scale it).