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Re: The mil as a unit of angle.
From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2003 Mar 13, 15:50 -0400
From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2003 Mar 13, 15:50 -0400
Richard Pisko wrote: > One "advantage" is that the old points on a compass rose can > be matched to even numbers on the US mil system. For > example: 0 is North and 1600 is East. 800 is NE. 400 is > NNE. 200 is N by E. 300 would be NE by N, I think. > > I have no idea what would correspond to 100mils. North one-half East 300 mils would be North North East one-half North. There is no such thing as North East by North, which would be a full point northward from North East and so identical to North by East (i.e. 200 mil). The odd-numbered points are always named from the nearest cardinal or ordinal point (e.g. North or North East), not from the intermediate ("inter-ordinal"?) ones like North North East. 50 mil would be North one-quarter East and 150 mil North three-quarters East. Again, the quarter points are named from the nearest cardinal or ordinal point. Now that wasn't really so hard, was it? (Not to compare with the complexity of lunars as a way of telling the time anyway!) Trevor Kenchington -- Trevor J. Kenchington PhD Gadus@iStar.ca Gadus Associates, Office(902) 889-9250 R.R.#1, Musquodoboit Harbour, Fax (902) 889-9251 Nova Scotia B0J 2L0, CANADA Home (902) 889-3555 Science Serving the Fisheries http://home.istar.ca/~gadus