Apple QuickTime movie | 1998-04-27 | 8.6 MB | 320x240 | 15fps | 55 seconds | [MooV/TVOD]
Transcription: When you're in a boat, there are no street signs in the ocean that can tell you where you are. Instead, sailors use a method of finding their position that's known as triangulation. First, you determine the angle from the boat to two different fixed points, such as a lighthouse or a radio beacon. Then you draw a triangle whose vertices are the two fixed points in your boat. Finding your location from the triangle depends on being able to determine all the sides and angles of any given triangle when you start out knowing just a couple of angles or sides. You can find the missing sides and angle ...