I'm sure someone knows what's up. (Math HPEL)

[Celephais]

The easiest way to get the upper-right angle is just 270 - 227.

I figured that out shortly after I had posted... figured both ways work... and didn't feel like updating my post... but it is easier that way. (although comparing ease of adding and subtracting is ridiculous, it's just a matter of knowing the right formula to use... which I initially messed up).

and... where are you getting 105.6 miles? I'm guessing you used 103 miles as the vertical purple line (which it isn't).

[Artha]

Nah... it's the computer age, you don't have to do anything:
http://ostermiller.org/calc/triangle.html

There's a special place in heaven for people like you.

[Latrinsorm]

I hit TAN instead of SIN at first.

[Gan]

Nah... it's the computer age, you don't have to do anything:
http://ostermiller.org/calc/triangle.html

144.4 Miles.

I love technology. And wish I had this available to me when I was in school.

[Celephais]

There's a special place in heaven for people like you.

Be sure to tack on a bunch of zeros to the end of any numbers you do... that site loves it's significant digits

I love technology. And wish I had this available to me when I was in school.

Me too... Where would I be without google.

[TheEschaton]

yeah, the whole 227 degrees thing....it's intersecting a horizontal line, which is 90 East, or, more appropriately 270 west.

I was gonna answer this, but it seems like everyone else has this covered.

-TheE-

[Bobmuhthol]

It'd be nice if it drew the triangle out for you. I wrote virtually the same program, except it was a set of individual ones, for my TI-83+. It'd be a giant pain in the ass to write a program on a calculator with the functionality of input fields like that, but the calculation is incredibly simple to do.

Except my calculator's RAM has been cleared like 5 times since I wrote them. They made my precalc tests a lot easier when we were doing that sort of stuff.