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Re: Why four cardinal compass points?
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2026 Sep 25, 01:49 -0700

I'm an artillery guy so I like 6400 mils for north, 1600 east, 3200 south, 4800 west. Mils are an approximation of a "milli-radian" so are very usefull for trig problems. A true milli-radian has 6,283 in a circle so our approximation is within two percent. The Soviets used 6000 mils in their circle so theirs was off by 5%.

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