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Subject: Re: The pedant's rhumb-line.
From: Dan Hogan (dhhogan1@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 09:17:47 EDT
On 10 Oct 2002, at 12:53, David Weilacher wrote:
> Well. Crap. Although this piece was entertaining, educational, and thought
> provoking, it will have everyone on this listed specifying "shortest"
> rhumb-line where just rhumb-line used to do :-}
[Snip Good Stuff]
I don't know what a "shortest rhumb line" would be, but it is a straight line
on a Mercator chart. Also a rhumb line, once known/called a loxodrome,
spirals toward the pole. I was surprised that the explanation is STILL in the
1995 Bowditch.
Cheers
-Dan-
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