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 July 2nd, 2017, 12:13 PM #1 Newbie   Joined: Jul 2017 From: moscow Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Spherical triangle I want to find angles of spherical traingle. The geographical coordinated of the points are 0, 0 0.000001, 0 0, 0.000001 I expect that agnles will be 90, a bit more than 45 and a bit more than 45 degrees. I use great circule distance formula and spherical cosine formula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_law_of_cosines The central angles are pretty small and they seems correct. They are 2,46827E-8 1,74533E-8 1,74533E-8 But spherical law of cosines give strange results. I got the following angles in radians 0,687 0,687 1,9438 or in degrees 39,3627 39,3627 111,3746 It seems there is a mistake. Could you please help me.
 July 2nd, 2017, 02:02 PM #2 Global Moderator   Joined: May 2007 Posts: 6,256 Thanks: 508 It would be helpful if you showed intermediate results.
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You need to specify the radius of the sphere.

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 The central angles are pretty small and they seems correct. They are 2,46827E-8 1,74533E-8 1,74533E-8
What are these quantities ? Central angles?

 July 4th, 2017, 12:06 PM #4 Newbie   Joined: Jul 2017 From: moscow Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Yes. They are central agnles in radians
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 Originally Posted by zock Yes. They are central agnles in radians
Central angles of what? Try to be specific.

Also you need a radius for the sphere (1?).

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 July 5th, 2017, 05:21 PM #6 Global Moderator   Joined: May 2007 Posts: 6,256 Thanks: 508 I will assume the central angle is with reference to center of the sphere with radius 1. In that case the two equal sides have angles exactly equal to the sides (0.000001). The third side is very slightly less than sqrt(2) times other side length.

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