The More You Know (DING)

Aug 14, 2008 18:18

If you ever need to find the surface distance between two points on the globe, or find out exactly what point is a given distance and direction from a known point on the globe, you should use Vincenty's Formulae.

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jurph August 15 2008, 00:15:36 UTC
Two weeks ago I would have said it was "useless and boring". A week ago I would have stuck with "useful, but boring." Now I think it's kind of cool, which is a sign that I have truly fallen down the rabbit hole.

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