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Triangles maintain perfect rigidity under intense strain

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Push on the corner of a built square, and it instantly collapses into a pathetic rhombus. Push on a triangle, and it stubbornly holds its exact form. Because its three sides are perfectly locked by their three angles, a triangle cannot be deformed without physically snapping the sides themselves. It is the most defensively aggressive polygon in existence.

Triangles maintain perfect rigidity under intense strain
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