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Re: Name for sixty nautical miles
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2016 Mar 17, 13:46 -0400
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2016 Mar 17, 13:46 -0400
Sixty Nautical Miles One Degree
Sinamionde. Pronounced "Sin A Me Owned"
On Mar 17, 2016 1:35 PM, "Magnus Sjoquist" <NoReply_Sjoquist@fer3.com> wrote:
1: sexaginta (latin)2: sexagree (not to be written in two words. Oooops./MagnusMed vänlig hälsning/Magnus Sjöquist2016-03-17 18:13 GMT+01:00 Frank Reed <NoReply_FrankReed@fer3.com>:I've been thinking this over for a while. We need a name for one degree of distance on the globe measured along a great circle. At least for teaching purposes, I think it would be useful. Just as the nautical mile represents one minute of arc, there ought to be some name, the nautical something, for one degree of arc. Any suggestions?
Frank Reed
