• Drawing a triangle, defined by its sides

    From Rainer Rosenthal@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 12 22:01:09 2016
    Still using Maple V I faced the following problem.

    Program
    ==========================
    with(geometry):
    triangle(T,[1,1,1]);
    draw(T,axes=NONE);
    ==========================

    produces error message
    ==================================================
    Error, (in geometry/hcoord) wrong type of argument ==================================================

    Did I miss something in the Help pages? ====================================================
    Calling Sequence:
    triangle(T, [A, B, C], n )
    triangle(T, [l1, l2, l3], n )
    triangle(T, [side1, side2, side3] ) <<<<<<< This I used
    triangle(T, [side1, 'angle'=theta, side3], n ) ====================================================

    When I use the three-point-version, everything is fine: ========================================
    triangle(Tt,[point(A,0,0),
    point(B,1,0),
    point(C,1/2,1/2*sqrt(3))]):
    draw(Tt,axes=NONE);
    ========================================

    This program shows me exactly what I expected.

    Cheers,
    Rainer

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