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Re: Comments on the units
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Apr 7, 14:59 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Apr 7, 14:59 -0400
And the compass ("bussole" in Soviet artillery,
but compass in the Soviet Navy)
was divided into 60 parts, correct?
Do US and British Armies use degrees?
A.
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, jean-philippe planas wrote:
> The French artillery (and infantry)
> uses division called "thousandth" (milli?me") as well. "One Thousandth"
> is the angle of an object one meter high seen from a 1000m (1 km
> distance) with the same conclusions as Alex.
> JPP
