If we draw a triangle, made of arc segments,
the sum of the interior angles is obviously going to be less than Pi.
Dragging the vertices out towards the boundary we can approach the trebly asymptotic triangle, and if we drag the vertices very close to each other we see that the triangle looks much like the Euclidean case. That the sum is less than Pi is equivalent to the two parallel postulate
for this geometry and this fact together with the sum of the angles of
a quadrilateral has to be less than 2Pi, is often used in proofs concerning
figures and theorems that are different to those of Euclidean geometry.
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Poincaré Bug
Regular Triangles