And now Lee has a new take. Oh what I am learning before giving up the
ghost ! I might want my ashes shipped twice around the earth - east
west and north south to be measured once in nautical miles and then
again in meters or better kilometers.
Marta
On Jan 4, 2009, at 17:40 pm, Lee Larson wrote:
On Jan 4, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Neal Hammon wrote:
Also, did you know that that the metric system gives map-makers
fits? The reason is that on degree in the earth's latitude or
longitude at the equator is equal to exactly 60 nautical miles. How
many kilometers? How about 111.37598 ! This is why aviators still
prefer to use nautical miles instead of kilometers.
Which makes more sense depends on whether you're going north-south
or east-west. The original definition of the meter was 1/10,000,000
of the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris.
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