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Re: The mil as a unit of angle.

Subject: Re: The mil as a unit of angle.
From: Trevor J. Kenchington (Gadus@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 22:33:23 EST

I see that I dropped a couple of "Norths" in my last posting. It should
have read:

> 300 mils would be North North East one-half North. There is no such
> thing as North North East by North, which would be a full point northward
> from North North East and so identical to North by East (i.e. 200 mil).
> The odd-numbered points are always named from the nearest cardinal or
> ordinal point (e.g. North or North East), not from the intermediate
> ("inter-ordinal"?) ones like North North East.

Nothing like a few dropped words to make a confusing topic incomprehensible.

Trevor Kenchington 

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