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Re: Why do we ocean navigators defer to 249 when 229is better?
From: Bill B
Date: 2014 Sep 01, 23:37 -0400
From: Bill B
Date: 2014 Sep 01, 23:37 -0400
On 9/1/2014 5:41 PM, Jackson McDonald wrote: > Are there any advantages to using any of these tabular methods as > opposed to the Law of Cosines method? To paraphrase Frank Reed, "Computing power is cheap." A NA and $10 TI30XA does it all. Score 1 for the cosine method. Current tabular methods can be done manually if you can add and subtract DMS in the sexagesimal system. No electricity required. Score 1 for tabular methods.
