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  2. Spherical trigonometry - Wikipedia

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    Case 3: two sides and an opposite angle given (SSA). The sine rule gives C and then we have Case 7. There are either one or two solutions. Case 4: two angles and an included side given (ASA). The four-part cotangent formulae for sets (cBaC) and (BaCb) give c and b, then A follows from the sine rule. Case 5: two angles and an opposite side given ...

  3. Midpoint circle algorithm - Wikipedia

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    To draw only a certain arc from an angle to an angle , the algorithm needs first to calculate the and coordinates of these end points, where it is necessary to resort to trigonometric or square root computations (see Methods of computing square roots). Then the Bresenham algorithm is run over the complete octant or circle and sets the pixels ...

  4. Snellius–Pothenot problem - Wikipedia

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    Draw the circle with center at O passing through A and C. Repeat the same construction with points B, C and the angle β. Mark P at the intersection of the two circles (the two circles intersect at two points; one intersection point is C and the other is the desired point P.) This method of solution is sometimes called Cassini's method.

  5. Spherical geometry - Wikipedia

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    The area of a triangle is proportional to the excess of its angle sum over 180°. Two triangles with the same angle sum are equal in area. There is an upper bound for the area of triangles. The composition (product) of two reflections-across-a-great-circle may be considered as a rotation about either of the points of intersection of their axes.

  6. Thales's theorem - Wikipedia

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    Thales's theorem can also be used to find the centre of a circle using an object with a right angle, such as a set square or rectangular sheet of paper larger than the circle. [7] The angle is placed anywhere on its circumference (figure 1). The intersections of the two sides with the circumference define a diameter (figure 2).

  7. Law of cosines - Wikipedia

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    the third side of a triangle if two sides and an angle opposite to one of them is known (this side can also be found by two applications of the law of sines): [a] = ⁡ ⁡. These formulas produce high round-off errors in floating point calculations if the triangle is very acute, i.e., if c is small relative to a and b or γ is small compared to 1.

  8. Sine and cosine - Wikipedia

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    The law of sines is useful for computing the lengths of the unknown sides in a triangle if two angles and one side are known. [5] Given that a triangle A B C {\displaystyle ABC} with sides a {\displaystyle a} , b {\displaystyle b} , and c {\displaystyle c} , and angles opposite those sides α {\displaystyle \alpha } , β {\displaystyle \beta ...

  9. Trigonometric functions - Wikipedia

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    Basis of trigonometry: if two right triangles have equal acute angles, they are similar, so their corresponding side lengths are proportional.. In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) [1] are real functions which relate an angle of a right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths.