Can you use trigonometric functions for any kind of triangle?
1 Answer
Mar 26, 2015
It depends on what you mean by "use trigonometric functions".
The Law of Sines tells us that for any triangle: labelled with
we have:
(So also, by algebra:
The Law of Cosines generalizes the Pythagorean Theorem.
It says that in any triangle labelled as above, we have: