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Re: The mil as a unit of angle.
From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2003 Mar 13, 23:33 -0400
From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2003 Mar 13, 23:33 -0400
I see that I dropped a couple of "Norths" in my last posting. It should have read: > 300 mils would be North North East one-half North. There is no such > thing as North North East by North, which would be a full point northward > from North 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. Nothing like a few dropped words to make a confusing topic incomprehensible. 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