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A Comedy of Errors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

G. N. Watson
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Extract

The following question came near to being set in a recent examination: The area of a triangle is calculated from the formula

where 2s = a + b + c. It is known that the measurements of the sides are correct to within 1 per cent. Find the greatest possible percentage error in the area.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 32 , Issue 298 , February 1948 , pp. 15 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1948

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