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Re: Land Lunar
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2017 Jan 7, 16:56 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2017 Jan 7, 16:56 -0800
David C, you wrote:
"Imagine spherical trigonometry in government papers today."
Yes, that would be crazy today. Well, unless you count the obsolescent material in a navigation manual like Bowditch, which is, in fact, a government publication.
Imagine instead that today two billion pocket-sized devices include the computation of great-circle distance as part of their built-in hardware, the computation burned right into the silicon chips! More than 25% of the world's population can now calculate great circle distance and bearing at the tap of a screen. Brave new world...
Frank Reed
