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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Antoine Couëtte
Date: 2011 Jul 11, 11:24 -0700
RE : http://www.fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=116685
[NavList] When did "time sights" fade away?
From: FrankReed---com
Date: 10 Jul 2011 16:33
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Captain Lane was famous for saying that all the math classes he took after high school never did him a bit of good, and spherical trigonometry was of no value in understanding celestial navigation (!).
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"in UNDERSTANDING Celnav ..." : not really necessary, I buy that one.
"and in computing then ???" : maybe spherical trigonometry might be useful - oh !!! just a bit, only - now and then, no ???
Kermit
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