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Revision as of 16:27, 27 September 2010
English
Alternative forms
Noun
- Template:nautical A technique for navigation using planar geometry.
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- Template:nautical A technique for navigation using the assumption the Earth is flat.
Usage notes
The heart of the technique is finding the departure from the results obtained by assuming that the earth's surface is flat. This seems commonly forgotten and a definition often given is "navigation using the assumption that the earth's surface is flat". Justification can be found in The analectic magazine 1817.