Abstract

Summary Inspired by arguments illustrating the Pythagorean theorem, this paper gives six interrelated dissection-like proofs of the law of cosines. Each proof treats the acute- and obtuse-angle cases together, and uses a trigonometric double-angle formula. Some of the proofs assume the Pythagorean theorem.

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