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From: Frank Reed
Date: 2010 Mar 13, 10:10 -0800
John Karl, you asked:
"To understand the Lord Ellenborough trick, It seems that I need to know what the Pole of a great circle is. I've never come across this term,"
Sorry, I thought it was self-explanatory from the description. I see that Andres and George have explained. Every great circle has two poles. They are the points 90 degrees away from every point on the circle.
And:
"Also, what do the two asterisks mean (as in *pole*)?"
It's an old "Internet-ism". It just means emphasis. If I were writing in fully-formatted text, I would have used italics.
-FER
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