From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-04-22T10:24:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Triangle Area (#160)

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  A method that hasn't been mentioned so far is "Heron's formula":
>
>   Area = sqrt( s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c) )
>
>     where a, b, c   are the lengths of the sides
>       and 2s = a + b + c
>
>  If someone wants to implement that, I'd be keen to see what the code
>  looks like.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Gavin

Daniel has a cool solution.  It's in his first email in this thread as
an attachment.

Todd