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Re: The mil as a unit of angle.
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Mar 12, 08:13 -0800
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Mar 12, 08:13 -0800
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 04:05 AM, George Huxtable wrote: > Myrt Webb says-"The mil is 1/6400th of a circle and 1 mil subtends an > arc > of 1 meter at 1000 meters." but both of Myrt's statements in that > sentence > cannot be precisely true, together. Agreed. For what it is worth, the American National Institute of Science & Technology (NIST) defines the mil (angle) as 1/6400 of a circle. The definition can be found here: http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/appenB8.html Dan