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Re: interesting navigational device
From: Andrew Nikitin
Date: 2012 Apr 16, 06:14 -0700
From: Andrew Nikitin
Date: 2012 Apr 16, 06:14 -0700
> From: Alexandre Eremenko
> I was a child I made such thing myself
> ...
> I suspect this is what stereographic projection was invented for
Not to be a nitpick, but his specific device uses azimuthal equidistant projection, instead of stereographic. I doubt very much that as a child you could draw lines sufficiently accurately without a computer.
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