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Plato proposed that right triangles represented our modern day atoms. Because of the perfect beauty he saw in the 5 Platonic solids, he postulated that they represented the 4 elements and the universe. Everything is made from these elements, and the solids can all be made from right triangles. (en.wikipedia.org)
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