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Re: Location without DR
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2018 Feb 17, 13:58 -0800
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2018 Feb 17, 13:58 -0800
On 2018-02-16 15:45, Marco A. Costa wrote: > For the readers, I am including another TI-BASIC program for the TI-84 plus. This generates a random global position and three associated GPs with their respective GHA,Dec,Ho in that order in rows. I believe latitudes from the program are equally probable in the intervals [0, 10] and [80, 90]. If that's true, the density of the random points increases from the equator to the pole. That may be undesirable for generating sight reduction practice problems, or data for a Monte Carlo experiment. To achieve constant density, generate latitudes from arc sines of random numbers in the interval (-1, 1).
