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Knots being phased out?
On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:06:20 GMT, keith_nuttle
wrote: I am just a chemist that likes to sail and have spent all of my time on inland lakes. I thought it was latitude but could be longitude, but I do remember that the diameter of the earth at the equator in in knots is equal to 360 X 60. A Knot is a unit of speed, not distance, and the distance you are calculating would be the circumference, not the diameter. The circumference of the earth at the equator is approximately 360 x 60 nautical miles. -- Peter Bennett, VE7CEI peterbb4 (at) interchange.ubc.ca new newsgroup users info : http://vancouver-webpages.com/nnq GPS and NMEA info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter Vancouver Power Squadron: http://vancouver.powersquadron.ca |
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