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TheMatrix On January 03, 2010




Sugarland, Texas
#16New Post! Jan 03, 2010 @ 20:16:12
@NikiNiki Said

Well yes, that's right. 2pi is 360?, and pi/2 = 90?. While they may be cute,

like me, 8)

they are neither acute, obtuse, or reflex.

I think of the tetrahedral angle as acos(-1/3), so it's arctangent would be its arcsine divided its arcosine or (2/3)*2^.5 divided by (-1/3), which is indeed -2*2^.5 or 109.47?. I don't know why Excel returns -70.53?.

The ? is alt 167 on my keyboard.



I see that... I prefer sec^-1 though (I get to use whole numbers more)
NikiNiki On January 04, 2011

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Villa Park, California
#17New Post! Jan 03, 2010 @ 21:00:13
@TheMatrix Said

I see that... I prefer sec^-1 though (I get to use whole numbers more)


Okay, I had not thought of that, but the secant of the tetrahedral angle would be minus three. I have a history of math. It's a big thick tome of a book, and I don't remember the title. It says something about how the oldest known trigonometry table is a list of secants on a clay table found somewhere in the Middle East.
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