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gwdash
Mar 2nd, 2001, 06:44 PM
I have a right triangle in which i know sides a,b, and c:

1
/|
/ |
a / |
/ | c
/ |
/ |
2 /______ |3
b


I need to find 1, 2, and 3

3 is obviously 90, and if i can find one other, i can find the third, so i was thinking about using ArcCosin. But i am new at Trig, so i'm really not sure. (This needs to be done in VB)

Sam Finch
Mar 2nd, 2001, 10:45 PM
you don't have an arccosine in VB, but you do have an arctangent.

Tan(angle 2) = c/b

angle 2 = ATan(c/b)

gwdash
Mar 3rd, 2001, 06:37 PM
Great. It works perfectly