{"id":1414,"date":"2018-03-19T06:16:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T10:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:38:22","slug":"is-it-possible-for-a-triangle-to-have-more-than-180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/03\/19\/is-it-possible-for-a-triangle-to-have-more-than-180\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it possible for a triangle to have more than 180\u00b0?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1409\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AW03192018-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1409\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AW03192018-2-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"Is it possible for a triangle to have more than 180\u00b0?\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is it possible for a triangle to have more than 180\u00b0?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yes. We typically think in Euclidean geometry, in which the triangle angle sum theorem states that the angles of a triangle always add up to 180\u00b0. In spherical geometry, however, given certain parameters when considering a spherical triangle, the sum of the angles may be greater than 180\u00b0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/sphericaltriangle\">bit.ly\/sphericaltriangle<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. We typically think in Euclidean geometry, in which the triangle angle sum theorem states that the angles of a triangle always add up to 180\u00b0. In spherical geometry, however, given certain parameters when considering a spherical triangle, the sum of the angles may be greater than 180\u00b0 (bit.ly\/sphericaltriangle)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[178,177],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riddles","tag-geometry","tag-triangle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}