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It turns out that there is a nice version of the law of sines for spherical triangles too! Let ABCABC be a spherical triangle with spherical side lengths a,b,ca,b,c opposite spherical angles A,B,CA,B,C. Then sin⁡Asin⁡a=sin⁡Bsin⁡b=sin⁡Csin⁡c.\frac{\sin A}{\sin a}=\frac{\sin B}{\sin b}=\frac{\sin C}{\sin c}.

For a derivation, see here.

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