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==Other properties== If segments of lengths <math>p</math> and <math>q</math> emanating from vertex <math>C</math> trisect the hypotenuse into segments of length <math>\tfrac13 c,</math> then<ref name=Posamentier>Posamentier, Alfred S., and Salkind, Charles T. ''Challenging Problems in Geometry'', Dover, 1996.</ref>{{rp|pp. 216β217}} :<math>p^2 + q^2 = 5\left(\frac{c}{3}\right)^2.</math> The right triangle is the only triangle having two, rather than one or three, distinct inscribed squares.<ref>Bailey, Herbert, and DeTemple, Duane, "Squares inscribed in angles and triangles", ''[[Mathematics Magazine]]'' 71(4), 1998, 278β284.</ref> Given any two positive numbers <math>h</math> and <math>k</math> with <math>h > k.</math> Let <math>h</math> and <math>k</math> be the sides of the two inscribed squares in a right triangle with hypotenuse <math>c.</math> Then :<math>\frac{1}{c^2} + \frac{1}{h^2} = \frac{1}{k^2}.</math> These sides and the incircle radius <math>r</math> are related by a similar formula: :<math>\frac{1}{r}=-{\frac{1}{c}}+\frac{1}{h}+\frac{1}{k}.</math> The perimeter of a right triangle equals the sum of the radii of [[Incircle|the incircle and the three excircles]]: :<math>a+b+c=r+r_a+r_b+r_c.</math>
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