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Re: Bisectors and MPP - for 3 sights, equivalent to circle method
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2003 May 29, 16:27 -0700
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2003 May 29, 16:27 -0700
I believe it means to touch or attempt to touch.When a tangent curve is viewed it gets closer and closer to the object (the finer the measurements of the tangent curve the closer to the object) or line but never really touches it.As I see it the arc touches the LOP at a single point. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Fogg [mailto:ffive@TPG.COM.AU] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 16:10 To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM Subject: Re: Bisectors and MPP - for 3 sights, equivalent to circle method From: "Noyce, Bill" > ... when I should have said > . is tangent to all three LOP's Can you please explain to me what a tangent is?
