Curious to find which term for 1/100 of the right angle is used in various languages.....I had called *this angle*: One Degree Metric in my contribution - The Metric Second (1973 April) published in ISI Vol.25 N.4; pp.152-56; 1973 April; Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi. In the paper, I also explained the 'idea' of GEOREF with respect to indetifying a small area of 10mx10m; also defining The Nautical Kilometre.
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From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:26377] Re: K.I.S.S. (Re: simplicity will sell) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:02:20 -0400
James Wentworth wrote in USMA 26367:
Grads are also useful, especially for expressing the inclinations of roads in mountainous and hilly areas. Even US road signs use grads (Ex. "7% Grade" in black characters on a yellow background, with a black pictogram of a truck driving down a steep lope). -- Jason
I think Jason is confusing the American civil engineering term of grade meaning gradient, or sine of the angle of elevation of a road, With the angle measure of grade, grad or gon (1/100 of a right angle). A gradient of 7% means that the road an inclination whose sine is 0.07 radians = 0.07 x 200 / � grades, grads or gons = 4.456...grades, grads or gons.
Curious to find which term for 1/100 of the right angle is used in various languages I searched my English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Greek and Dutch dictionaries without success. It seems that the ordinary person doesn't do angles.
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