What is solid angle (in steradian) subtended by a regular heptagonal plane with each side at a point lying on the perpendicular axis passing through one of the vertices such that its height from the plane is ?
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A search of the Internet found this formula from the author's book. I used with a = 1 2 and h = 2 5 , and obtained a different answer... A typo, somewhere, perhaps.