From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Oct 02 1999 - 09:15:35 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
> Hey Spike, I'm glad your guys are ready to save the land of the free from
> incoming nukes. Just remind them to check that they're calibrating
> distances in newfangled metric OR classic imperial, not both. :(
One other thing: the nukes use units that are neither metric nor
classical imperical: nautical miles. A nautical mile is one minute
of arc on the earth's surface, which is very useful for these sorts
of calculations. spike
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