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Re: Comments on the units
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Apr 7, 23:30 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Apr 7, 23:30 -0400
Which reminds me even more amazing story once told on this list, about a US pilot in Korean war, who could determine his coordinates with a reasonable precision just by looking at the stars and at his chronometer, without a sextant:-) On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Ken Muldrew wrote: > Someone already mentioned the John Wayne movie > where he takes a sighting of the sun, looks at the sextant scale, and > promptly announces the latitude and longitude of the fix. The artillerists > could naturally perform similar feats of mental arithmetic! ;-)
