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Default One minute of Longitude--at your Latitude?


"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message
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How long is a minute of Longitude--at your Latitude?

And what is the formula to calcuate it?

OZ, although your posts are mostly negative, for you it
would not be a negative number.
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If the earth is assumed to be locally a sphere, it is the local radius times
one minute of angle in radians.