On Jan 6, 11:09 am, marcelo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 6, 7:40 pm, Markw65 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Not by any definition of "reasonable". The spherical "triangle" is
> > just a line (an arc, if you will). That point is nowhere near the arc.
>
> No.
> "A spherical triangle is a figure formed on the surface of a sphere by
> three great circular arcs intersecting pairwise in three vertices"
> From:http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalTriangle.html
Thats why I put the "" around "triangle" - because its degenerate.
But to be honest, Im not sure your definition is particularly
authoritative - simply because it *does* exclude degenerate triangles.
Doesnt really affect anything either way. Just move the last point to
179.99999999999, and everyone's happy.
Mark
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