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Triangle "Tangle"

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Greetings! As i was remembering my teacher from High School- one of his teachings in geometry sprung up suddenly and fit itself in the analogy for life. So what is life? The life is a triangle tangle. Life contains many triangles, the love triangle, the equality (equilateral) triangle, the right (as well as wrong) angled triangle and to top it off the trinity (Father Son & Holy Ghost / Brahma, Vishnu & Mahesh) triangle. Each incident that happens in our life cajoles, pushes, begs, shakes us up to make us think - 'how does it make sense?' As a hypothesis, in terms of geometry-of-life, lets say this translates to 'this will make sense - when i find such a pair of the 2 sides (another possibility) of this triangle (incident) whose sum is less than the third side (the side which i traversed just now as part of the incident).. Too heavy? Ok. Here is a step-by-step version. Problem in Geometry: Find the 2 sides of a triangle, whose sum is less than (short