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Re: The Great Circle Challenge
From: Henry Halboth
Date: 2014 Dec 26, 17:39 -0500

Then again, for the non math minded among us, there is a graphical method Please see attached for Prof. Airy's solution.

Henry

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Andrés Ruiz <NoReply_AndresRuiz@fer3.com> wrote:

in solution:
ML - Mid Latitude
RL - Rhumb Line
RL - Rhumb Line, spherical Earth model
GC - Great Circle
GD - Geodesic

Plotted the whole great circle, vertex and nodes.
forget the straight red and blue lines.

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Andrés Ruiz
Navigational Algorithms
http://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/

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