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Re: Haversines with Logarithms
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2020 Oct 11, 11:51 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2020 Oct 11, 11:51 -0700
Matthew,
See the attached PDFs to compare. The natural haversine table fits on both sides of 5 pages. 5 places is good to a tenth of a minute of arc when performing haversine Doniol method. Logarithms are not used.
Greg Rudzinski