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From: Gaston Petrocelli
Date: 2002 Oct 24, 14:23 +0900
From: Gaston Petrocelli
Date: 2002 Oct 24, 14:23 +0900
Hello everyone, My name is Gaston Petrocelli and I'm a 3rd. deck officer from the uruguayan merchant marine currently taking a post graduate course at the Marine Technical College in Kobe, Japan. I just found this mailing list yesterday and have had a lot of fun while reading you... it's amazing how easy one can forget about classical navigation when modern gadgets do all the work for us. I hope to take advantage of all your knowledge and make some contributions as well. I have a request now, I have to prepare a program to calculate difference of meridional parts under different geodesic systems to present as "homework". The problem is that I haven't been able to access reliable constants to use on my calculations. If anybody knows where I can find them online I'd appreciate it greatly. I'm in need of the following Equatorial and Polar Radius: by Bessel, Clark, Hayword, Krasovsky and L. A. U.. Thank you very much in advance and hope to hear from you soon. Gaston Petrocelli Merchant Marine Officer