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As is well-known, numerical experiments show that Napoleon’s Theorem for planar triangles does not extend to a similar statement for triangles on the unit sphere \(S^2\). Spherical triangles for which an extension of Napoleon’s Theorem holds are called Napoleonic, and until now the only known examples have been equilateral. In this paper we determine all Napoleonic spherical triangles, including a class corresponding to points on a 2-dimensional ellipsoid, whose Napoleonisations are all congruent. Other new classes of examples are also found, according to different versions of Napoleon’s Theorem for the sphere. The classification follows from successive simplifications of a complicated original algebraic condition, exploiting geometric symmetries and algebraic factorisations.
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