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Subject: Re: The mil as a unit of angle.
From: Dan Allen (danallen46@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 11:13:49 EST
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 04:05 AM, George Huxtable wrote:
> Myrt Webb says-"The mil is 1/6400th of a circle and 1 mil subtends an
> arc
> of 1 meter at 1000 meters." but both of Myrt's statements in that
> sentence
> cannot be precisely true, together.
Agreed.
For what it is worth, the American National Institute of Science &
Technology (NIST) defines the mil (angle) as 1/6400 of a circle. The
definition can be found here:
http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/appenB8.html
Dan
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