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From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Jun 12, 10:38 -0700
Robert,
I very much like the way your Martelli LHA table V looks and wondering if you could post a haversine table PDF using that same font and format.
Greg Rudzinski
From: Robert Bernecky
Date: 2015 May 17, 07:01 -0700
I would write it as "haversine of angle 45° has the numerical value 0.1464466"
hav(45°)= 0.1464466
to calculate hav(x) you can use either
or
the latter expression means first halve the angle e.g. 45/2 = 22.5 deg. , then find the sin(22.5°) = 0.3826834
finally square this to get 0.1464466 which matches what you get using the first expression (1- cos x)/2
You will also want to know how to find the "inverse haversine": given that haversine of some angle is 0.1464466 , what angle is that?
hav(x)= 0.1464466
as Frank Reed posted, you can find x using
cos x= 1- 2*0.1464466
cos x = 0.707106781
now use a calculator to find the inverse cosine of 0.707106781
x = cos-1 (0.70710678) = 45°
