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Back before the dawn of time (on Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:50:24
-0400, to be exact), "Trevor J. Kenchington"
 wrote:

>Richard Pisko wrote:
>
>>  the old points on a compass rose can
>> be matched to even numbers on the US mil system.  For
>> example: 0 is North and 1600 is East.  800 is NE.  400 is
>> NNE.  200 is N by E.  300 would be NE by N, I think.
>>
>> I have no idea what would correspond to 100mils.
>
>
>
>North one-half East

Thank you.

>300 mils would be North North East one-half North. There is no such
>thing as North East by North, which would be a full point northward from
>North East and so identical to North by East (i.e. 200 mil).
>
Right.  N by E (200), I see that now, and halfway to NNE
(400) from there is NNE 1/2 N (300) because it is an odd
hundred mil number.  You mean I got the others right?  :-)
But would not 600 mils be NE by N since 800 mils is NE?

>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.
>
>50 mil would be North one-quarter East and 150 mil North three-quarters
>East. Again, the quarter points are named from the nearest cardinal or
>ordinal point.
>
So Hitchcock's "North by North West" is a valid designation
of the direction ... (looking for some paper) ... 5800 mils?
Or perhaps 326-1/4 degrees?

>
>Now that wasn't really so hard, was it?

Thank you.  I thought I learned to box the compass up to 32
points a great many years ago, but I didn't remember the
half points except as a term in sailing.  Even the 32 were
obviously blurred in my memory.

>(Not to compare with the
>complexity of lunars as a way of telling the time anyway!)
>
Umm...  Where could I find something that explained the
lunar system?

There was a brief time period during the French Revolution
that used a 10 (long) hour day of 100 (long) minutes per
hour, and ... 100 (short) seconds per minute?  Was one of
the units called a lunar?  I had a reference one time, but
it seems to be gone.  Checking the web, I discover there is
the one time zone, X time, based on dividing the day into
100,000 as the unit, and starting the day at midnight (zero)
on the international date line.  Seems similar.


>Trevor Kenchington

Yours truly,


--
Richard ...

   

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