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Re: Bisectors and MPP - for 3 sights, equivalent to circle method
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2003 May 30, 09:38 -0400
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2003 May 30, 09:38 -0400
In this context, a circle is tangent to a line when
it just "kisses" the line -- approaches, touches, and
then departs on the same side of the line. The place
where it touches is the part of the line closest to
the circle's center, and the circle's radius at that
point meets the line at right angles.
In trigonometry, the tangent function tan(theta) is
defined as sin(theta)/cos(theta) -- I think there's a
way of drawing triangles and circles so the name makes
sense with the previous definition.
-- Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Fogg [mailto:ffive@TPG.COM.AU]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:10 PM
To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
Subject: Re: Bisectors and MPP - for 3 sights, equivalent to circle
method
From: "Noyce, Bill"
> ... when I should have said
> . is tangent to all three LOP's
Can you please explain to me what a tangent is?
