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Re: Using any star for a lunar

From: Alexandre Eremenko (no email)
Date: Wed Apr 06 2005 - 13:48:42 EDT

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    On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Herbert Prinz wrote:

    > Or you may get a triangle in which the sum of the angles IS 180 degrees??

    See my last message of April 6.
    You can have 180 degrees ONLY in the case of a "degenerate" triangle.
    The one whose angles are 0, 0 and 180. (So it has no "interior").
    This is because its area should be zero if the sum of the angles is 180.

    Alex.


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