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What is a polar triangle in spherical trigonometry?

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for any spherical triangle on any sphere there associated another triangle called the polar triangle associated with this spherical triangle with the property that the sum of any angle (or side) of one of these two triangles and the length of the side (and the angle)of the other triangle is alway equil to 180 degrees

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