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How ships navigate a sphere, the math and maps behind great circle routes
On a flat chart, the shortest ocean route looks like a curve, but that's just a trick of the map projection. Here's how ...
Most trigonometry students look at triangles on a flat surface. However, people from ancient astronomers to modern navigators calculated the arc lengths and angles of triangles on a sphere. They used ...
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