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Do the heights of an acute triangle intersect at a single point (in neutral geometry)?

A well-known result of the Euclidean planimetry says that the heights of any triangle have a common point called the orthocentre of the triangle. This result is not true in neutral geometry (i.e., ...
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Is the orthocenter "(roughly) equationally finitely-based"?

Let $T$ be the "almost everywhere" equational theory of the orthocenter function, "tweaked appropriately" to avoid partiality issues (see this earlier question of mine for details)....
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Equational theory of the orthocenter

Previously asked at MSE: Briefly speaking, I'm looking for a description of the equational theory of the orthocenter function, $\mathsf{orth}$. By $\mathsf{orth}$ I mean the (partial) function sending ...
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