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Theorem:
For any n pair of intersecting lines bisecting any two angles to adjacent sides of a triangle,
the total number of triangles denoted by

is given as:

( )

In this case therefore

() () ; this gives 58 triangles

Proof

Consider the triangle below





















A
B
C
D

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Let the bold black lines be denoted as generation 0 lines while the new blue line is a
generation 1 line therefore,
shall be denoted as 000, while
shall be denoted as 100. With line AD denoting the 1
The addition of this line (

) generates a set of additional triangles denoted by

Here

as only two additional triangles ( ) have been created.

Thus let

denote the additional set of triangles created by drawing any

unique line.
Let us now complete the pair of lines
Consider the triangle below


















This implies that drawing another line above

like this generates an additional

set of
triangles which in this case are: , which in term of the generations I defined
earlier can be designated as:
100, 100.

being the generation 1 line

thus we have an additional

for drawing the

pair of lines.
But, looking closely we have generated some new triangles:






A
B
C
D
E

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Looking closely at these new triangles, we can observe something unique about them;
They can be designated by 110,110,110 according to my earlier syntax of line generation.
This means that for any pair of

lines, we generate additional:

Where

represents the additional set of lines generated by having unique triangles from the
crossing of the two drawn lines.
Here then

Thus we can generalize that

Let us now extend the equation to two pairs, starting from one line

A
B
C
D
E
O
A
B
C
D
E
O
F
X

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is given as 6 due to the following triangles:

Adding the second pair gives:


















According to our earlier equation, we have that a corresponding

and

be generated
Except that this equation does not capture
Thus we will denote this additional set of triangles by

By observation which I refuse to detail here for the purpose of brevity, I arrived at the
following:

( )
While

And

( )
Thus I have:

( ) ( )
Let:
() ( ) ( )
Thus

()
Thus

() ( )

()
() ( ) ( ) ()
A
B
C
D
E
O
F
G
P
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()

()

()

) ( )

Thus we have been able to prove that




Note: Actually, you may find it interesting that there is an alternative proof to arrive at
this equation which should take less than half a page. The interested reader might want to
derive this for himself, for now I keep that a little secret.

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This Proof was created and compiled by Bankole Temitayo S.