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Given a right triangle with an acute angle $\theta$, the side of the triangle that is {\sl adjacent\/} to $\theta$ is the side of the triangle that touches $\theta$ that is not the hypotenuse. Given a right triangle with an acute angle $\theta$, the side of the triangle that is {\sl adjacent\/} to $\theta$ is the side of the triangle that touches $\theta$ that is not the hypotenuse.