Reflections in the sides of a spherical triangle of angles generate a finite group when its images tessellate the sphere. The triangle area is by the spherical excess formula. Label its three vertex types and continue those labels across each reflected side; they are consistent around every vertex and, because the sphere is simply connected, globally. The generated group preserves these labels, so a chamber stabilizer fixes all three vertices and is trivial. Dividing sphere area by chamber area gives its order. Up to permutation the possibilities are for , and , of orders .
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