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The angles of a triangle add up to a straight line

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The problem

Show that the three interior angles of any triangle in the Euclidean plane add up to .

The usual proof draws a line through one vertex, parallel to the opposite side. There are others: walk once round the triangle and count how far you have turned, for instance.

Whichever you choose, say where the parallel postulate is hiding. On a sphere the angles of a triangle add up to more than , so it has to be hiding somewhere.

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