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[Bob Rasmussen]

Jay, I think if you read the citation you might need to check your beliefs.

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bob Rasmussen" <ras at anzio.com>
>
>> This caught my geeky interest. A quick google of "distance between long
>> lat coordinates" produces several possible sites giving and explaining the
>> formula(s). The first one looks good (if you can do trig in filePro):
>> http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
>
> I believe you need *hyperbolic* trig to do this accurately over more than a
> couple hundred miles or so.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> -- 
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