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Credit: Lars H. Rohwedder
Spherical geometry is the geometry of the two-dimensional surface of a sphere. It is an example of a non-Euclidean geometry. Two practical applications of the principles of spherical geometry are navigation and astronomy. On a sphere, the sum of the angles of a triangle is not equal to 180°.
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