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Plane Geometry - Bruce E. Shapiro

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Section 21Side-Angle-SideDefinition 21.1 Two triangles △ABC and △DEF are congruent(△ABC ∼ = △DEF ) if there is a correspondence between the vertices ofthe first triangle and the vertices of the second triangle such that the correspondingangles are congruent and corresponding sides are congruent.Figure 21.1: SAS postulate. Distances AB = DE, BC = EF and anglesα = β hence the two triangles are congruent.The Side-Angle-Side Congruence Condition (SAS) is Euclid’s Proposition4; it was taken as an axiom by Hilbert as well as the SMSG (Axiom 15).103

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