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Spherical Triangles

ℹ️Published on Sunday, 10th April 2011, 10:00 am; Solved by 683;
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A spherical triangle is a figure formed on the surface of a sphere by three great circular arcs intersecting pairwise in three vertices.

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Let $C(r)$ be the sphere with the centre $(0,0,0)$ and radius $r$.
Let $Z(r)$ be the set of points on the surface of $C(r)$ with integer coordinates.
Let $T(r)$ be the set of spherical triangles with vertices in $Z(r)$. Degenerate spherical triangles, formed by three points on the same great arc, are not included in $T(r)$.
Let $A(r)$ be the area of the smallest spherical triangle in $T(r)$.

For example $A(14)$ is $3.294040$ rounded to six decimal places.

Find $\sum \limits_{r = 1}^{50} A(r)$. Give your answer rounded to six decimal places.



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