UNIT DUAL QUATERNIONS AND ARCS
UNIT DUAL QUATERNIONS AND ARCS
In this paper we obtain sine and cosine rules for dual spherical triangle on the dual unit sphere S^2 by representing great circle arcs by dual quatrenions.
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