Ailles rectangle
rectangle with width 1 + √3 and height √3 used to calculate sin of 15 degrees and related quantities


The Ailles rectangle is a rectangle constructed from four right-angled triangles which is commonly used in geometry classes to find the values of trigonometric functions of 15° and 75°. It is named after Douglas S. Ailles who was a high school teacher at Kipling Collegiate Institute in Toronto.