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Re: Impossible lunar example
From: Douglas Denny
Date: 2010 Sep 2, 00:35 -0700
From: Douglas Denny
Date: 2010 Sep 2, 00:35 -0700
Dear Robin,
You say:-
"The triangle I describe has sides of 103, 109 and 161 degrees in length, which does satisfy the condition that the sum of any two sides is greater than the third, yet you seem to suggest that this does not represent a real triangle..."
But this _is_ mathematically an impossible spherical triangle as the sum of the sides is greater than 360.
Douglas Denny.
Chichester. England.
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