Posted by TT on Friday, March 26, 2010 at 10:00pm.
If y is the third side of a triangle, you could use the cosine rule, where
a,b are lengths of adjacent sides, and C is the included angle between a and b.
then the length of the third side, c, is given by:
c²=a²+b²-2ab cos(C)
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