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Re: Compass card with more than 360 degrees
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2006 Apr 8, 10:22 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2006 Apr 8, 10:22 -0700
Clyde Nickerson wrote: > OK Lou, but how about the 6400 Mils circle that we used to lay guns in the > Artillery..... Clyde: I think this has been explained by later posts. I don't know the origin of mils, but the approximation to 2PI is obviously useful. Lu