[Edu-sig] Calculating area of a surface plane on a spherical body.

[David Scherer]

> Actually that's what I want to do, but I want to be sure that 
> I have the solution completely tackled before hand. For 
> clarification, I'm not using just 3 points but >3 (greater 
> than 3 points). I'm trying to figure out a general method 
> that will calculate the area given a number of points greater 
> than 3, it will probably be 4 or 5 most of the time. That's 
> where I'm having the difficulty.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/problems/chen.8.9.99.html