On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, John Carmichael wrote: > Hi Fer, Anselmo and others who gave mathematical formulas for reverse > engineering: > > If it's as easy as Fer suggests, then it might be possible to make a > program or spreadsheet that mathematically challenged people could use > to analyze other dials with unknown latitudes and declinations. > > can we do this?
If the math works, as I expect it will, a spreadsheet would be very easy. Almost as easy would be a stand-alone program (for those without Excel) that would accept the measured angles and spit out the unknowns. Let's get the spreadsheet version working, and I'll make the small one... Dave 37.277N 121.966W -
