Thanks, Pat, for your opportune remarks. Just a slight comment below. On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 16:35:36 Pat Naughtin wrote: ... >Accuracy is usually a simple matter of choosing an appropriate prefix. If we >used quads - for example - an angle of one milliquad (1 mq) would subtend a >distance of 10 kilometres on the surface of the Earth; and an angle of one >microquad (1 5q) would subtend a distance of 10 metres. > True. And with the grade a centigrade would mean 1 km, a very convenient association for amateur navigators drafting their navigational plans. ... >> Pat's proposal though is not calling for 4000 grads in a circle, but rather >> 4000 milliquads! > >More specifically, and more simply, it calls for 1000 milliquads in a quad. > Sure.
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