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Subject: Precise great-circle calculation
From: George Huxtable (george@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 16:44:06 EST
Lu Abel, in a posting with subject "Haversine formulae for Great Circles", says-
>For sailing (which IS the focus of this group, of course) mid-Lat would be
>just fine (Mercator Sailing gives a rhumb line course so it wouldn't be
>applicable)
This puzzles me somewhat.
In the context we are discussing, (when the destination is very close to
the point of departure), then a rhumb line and a great circle become
indistinguishable.
George.
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