Mercator Sailing: Course and Distance
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08-24-2018, 07:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-24-2018 08:23 PM by Gene222.)
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RE: Mercator Sailing: Course and Distance
Two weeks and no response. I guess Eddie is not following his own post.
I bought Calculator Afloat in the late 80s or early 90s to learn more about geodetic calculations. It's a good book, but it does not go into much detail about the signage for the latitude and longitude calculations. You perform the calculations first then mentally apply the proper signage to the results. I modified Eddie's program where South latitudes and West longitudes must be entered as negative numbers in degrees, but I ran into a problem when the two points have the same latitude, such as Lat 40 N, Long 25 W Lat 40 N, Long 30 W In this case, the course and distance equations give division by zero error messages. How do you calculate the course and distance on a parallel? Code: EXPORT MERCATOR() |
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