I define it as a "Math Problem" because the subject of the thread is "Math
Problem."

and that proves my statement that you did not understand the question. It
could have been called "Grapefruit" without changing the question -- and answer
-- at all.



You forget the I spent 6 years programming navigation for NASA spacecraft.

no you didn't "spend 6 years programming navigation". you may have spent time
coding nav programs, but that is not hardly "programming navigation". a good
coder -- and everyone else within sight of the code -- knows the difference.
Only a hack coder trying to to lay the cocktail waitress would claim to be
"programming navigation".

High school trigonometry
is not that difficult for me.

It isn't difficult for anyone. That is why it is taught in high school.

Its on page 325 of the current Bowditch.

so, you did look it up rather than recall it from memory. so much for
"programming navigation" for NASA.

The context was as a "Math Problem." Look at the subject of this thead.

no, the context was "Grapefruit". Look at the subject of the thread.

If you are unable to do a "Math Problem" why do you keep
contributing to this thread?

I solved the actual problem -- in my head without looking up any math -- within
a couple minutes of the original posting, and posted an explanation that keep
the math in it proper place in the background. It was not a math problem, but
rather a concept problem. Lower life forms have a hard time dealing with
concepts.

I'll bet there were a few people out there whose memory of trig was refreshed
a bit.

for what purpose? To show that you could look up a math formula used by no
one? Besides, you didn't need the trig to get the answer. *you* used the
trig, but no one else was required to.

Remember Jaxie, you not only got a inaccurate answer to the first question,
you didn't bother to
answer the second.

you dumb cluck, jeffies. "a little over 7 knots" IS the right answer when the
course shift is 90* rather than 100*. In fact, the EXACT number is Sq Rt 50.
To this moment you have no idea why that is true.

And making a guess that's 5 degrees off is not very good navigation.

it wasn't a navigation question, jeffies. It was a concept question.