I'm reposting from here, but I'm not sure how to use the law of cosines on it, as I don't know any sides.
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The law of cosines can be used to determine a side of a triangle if two sides and the angle between them are known.
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Of any triangle, if you count the Law of Cosines, since it can be Black Carrot 05 : 31, 13 July 2007 ( UTC)
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For instance, propositions twelve and thirteen of book two of the " Elements " are the laws of cosines for obtuse and acute angles, respectively.
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In the 15th century, Jamsh + d al-Ksh + provided the first explicit statement of the law of cosines in a form suitable for triangulation.
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The law of cosines may be used to prove Heron's formula, which is another method that may be used to calculate the area of a triangle.
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For this you will need the diagonals, which can of course be found using the Law of cosines .-- talk ) 21 : 03, 24 May 2007 ( UTC)
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:If you know one of the angles ( preferably the one opposite the longest side ), you can use the law of cosines to calculate the length you need.
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The law of cosines for this tetrahedron, which relates the areas of the faces of the tetrahedron to the dihedral angles about a vertex, is given by the following relation:
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The law of cosines, or cosine rule, connects the length of an unknown side of a triangle to the length of the other sides and the angle opposite to the unknown side.