Oh dear, I must be a little worse off than I thought. Taking a look at what you wrote has yielded little to me. I think I may be confused over units, and perhaps converting radians to degrees improperly.
Would you mind stepping me through your formulas? Say if, in triangle ABC, where B is a right angle and z is the hypotenuse, when BC is x and AB is y, we have a value of 5 for y and 10 for x. How do I apply these calculations to determine the angle of A in degrees? Thanks, M -----Original Message----- From: Lon Lentz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 3:33 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Geometry Question Oscar Has A Hunk Of Apples Sin(theta) = Opposite/Hypotenuse => Sin(A) = x/z Cos(theta) = Adjacent/Hypotenuse => Cos(A) = y/z Tan(theta) = Opposite/Adjacent => Tan(A) = x/y A = Atan(x/y) = Acos(y/z) = Asin(x/z) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
