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Re: Name for sixty nautical miles
From: Philip Lange
Date: 2016 Mar 17, 16:15 -0400
From: Philip Lange
Date: 2016 Mar 17, 16:15 -0400
If memory serves, a Cable is 100 Fathoms and a League is 10 Cables
or 1000 Fathoms.= 1 nautical mile
Philip
Philip
On 03/17/2016 01:13 PM, Frank Reed
wrote:
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
