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Re: Units and area.
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2006 Jul 17, 13:00 -0500
On 17 Jul 2006, at 11:13 AM, Philip Lange wrote:
> Of course the system of Nautical Miles, Cables and Fathoms does
> have a bit of logic going for it.
The nautical mile is based on the distance from the equator to the
pole. With today's measurements it turns out to be off by a very
small amount, but this is still a very useful rule of thumb: one
degree of latitude is 60 nautical miles. Very handy.
Dan
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From: Dan Allen
Date: 2006 Jul 17, 13:00 -0500
On 17 Jul 2006, at 11:13 AM, Philip Lange wrote:
> Of course the system of Nautical Miles, Cables and Fathoms does
> have a bit of logic going for it.
The nautical mile is based on the distance from the equator to the
pole. With today's measurements it turns out to be off by a very
small amount, but this is still a very useful rule of thumb: one
degree of latitude is 60 nautical miles. Very handy.
Dan
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