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Spherical excess formula

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A geodesic triangle on the unit sphere with interior angles α,β,γ has area
α+β+γ−π.
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For a sphere of radius R, multiply by R2. Triangulation gives a convex spherical n-gon area ∑i​αi​−(n−2)π.

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