Solving spherical triangles

The Endeavour 2025-12-04

Summary:

This post is a side quest in the series on navigating by the stars. It expands on a footnote in the previous post. There are six pieces of information associated with a spherical triangle: three sides and three angles. I said in the previous post that given three out of these six quantities you could […]

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geometry

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John

Date tagged:

12/04/2025, 16:11

Date published:

12/04/2025, 13:51