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Suppose you made a triangle in your backyard. You used a stretched string to make three ge...

Suppose you made a triangle in your backyard. You used a stretched string to make three geodesics to form the sides of the triangle. You then used a protractor and found that the sum of the angles of the triangle was 180°. You know that the surface of the Earth is curved, so why didn’t your triangle contain more than 180°?

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