The thirty-sixty-ninety ratio is ordered by the sides opposite thirty, sixty, and ninety degrees. We’ll map those to short leg, long leg, and hypotenuse, scale the one-to-square-root-of-three-to-two pattern by the symbolic short leg, and verify the three expressions with the Pythagorean theorem.
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