Talk:Law of Cosines

If anyone can explain why the main block of math text is small and the rest is big, I would appreciate it. Or at the very least standardize it even if you don't want to take the time to explain.

latex

I believe the reason that some are big and some are small has to do with how LaTeX creates the images. Something like $c=0$, will be smaller then $\frac{1}{2}$. I know there is a command to fix this, but I can't quite recall what it is.

Answered my own question (I looked at the formula help page on wikipedia [1]) Add \, at the end of the formula immediately preceding $ \$ $

General tidyup

I gave this a workover (as it's being referenced), hope you're okay with what I did. I took the liberty of using $C$ as the angle in question rather than $\theta$ as (IMO) it makes it more streamlined. --Matt Westwood 10:52, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Move

i think this post have to be in euclidian geometry.. the problem is the proof here is more analytic...

Good call, Gamma. Euclidean Geometry it is. The manner of solution does not matter, the fact that it's valid only for a flat space does. --Matt Westwood 23:01, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

New edit

What's the "MIII" for?

It's a tribute to the math class (Math 3) the proof is from. --Cynic (talk) 15:25, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Oh right. Okay. These codes are not universally used and possibly even transitory, so maybe their usage is questionable. Might be worth defining them somewhere so as to give those not in the know some background. Just a thought. --Matt Westwood 20:20, 14 August 2009 (UTC)