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Re: Double altitude method
From: Dennis Georgakis
Date: 2015 Aug 5, 18:37 -0700
From: Dennis Georgakis
Date: 2015 Aug 5, 18:37 -0700
I am sorry if this has already been mentioned but there is an entry in "100 Great Problems in Elementary Mathematics" - H. Dorrie pg. 323 - called Gauss' Two Altitude Problem that gives a straighforward solution to finding the latitude and longitude of an observer given altitudes of two stars.
