colonel@gloria.UUCP (06/08/85)
["Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen ... "] > For this particular problem, all you > need to find is M, which transforms the standard tetrahedron to > whatever tetrahedron you want. For the tetrahedron P,Q,R,S: > > 1 | [P-S 0]| 1 | [P 1]| > V = --- |det[Q-S 0]| = --- |det[Q 1]| > 6 | [R-S 0]| 6 | [R 1]| > | [ S 1]| | [S 1]| I asked for the volume in terms of the lengths of the edges, not the positions of the vertices! Anyway, it's been answered, so please, no more. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel