Re: Ping John Larkin

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:15:56 -0700, rex wrote:

I wrote an excel spread*** for calculating results of a microwave ham
radio contest I participate in every year. One of the things involved in
the scoring is computing the distance between two points on the earth.

I'm having deja vu here. ;-) My first paid C program was an airplane
charter calculator. The guy I was doing it for lent me a book with the
formula, so the calc was pretty straightforward - I just now did a search,
and Zowie! http://www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java/lat-long.htm

For mine, the secretary had to enter lat/long of all the airports the
client serviced, out of a little handbook. I was in their office when
she started entering these numbers, and she asked, "Feet and inches
too?" I explained, "That's minutes and seconds, but yes, enter them
too." Oddly, she wasn't blonde. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

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