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That statement is both true and false.

Sure, triangulation is the preferred method, if it works. But for anything

more distant than a few hundred of the nearest stars, triangulation fails,

so we're forced to find other ways of measuring farther objects.

And by the way ... triangulation is a method of measurement, not calculation.

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