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To: general_re
It's not defined.
944 posted on 05/24/2002 8:51:14 PM PDT by BMCDA
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To: BMCDA
Which should hardly be a surprise, given the nature of the triangle we are describing, don't you think? ;)

IOW, the law of cosines still holds true, even in such a case - it is a law, after all. So to define an angle as "two lines diverging from a common point" is too restrictive - defining it in such a manner implicitly assumes that there is a length involved, when the formal relationship between the sides and angles of a triangle requires no such thing.

945 posted on 05/24/2002 9:03:19 PM PDT by general_re
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