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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