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Haversine formula
Haversine formula The haversine formula is an equation important in navigation, giving ... a special case of a more general formula in spherical trigonometry, the law of ...
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Talk:Haversine formula
Talk:Haversine formula Why atan2? In the formula for d, you can use either arcsin ... Apr 12, 2004 (UTC) What's the formula? In one part of the article it ... article says: the use of detailed printed haversine charts saved navigators from squaring sines ...
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Talk:Haversine formula/Alt
Talk:Haversine formula/Alt < Talk:Haversine formula The haversine formula is an equation important in ...
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Talk:Great-circle distance
... see a derivation of the spherical distance formula. You start with your statement (d = r ... dot product, which leads to the above formula. Then just plug in your favorite spherical coordinates to arrive at the final formula. -- Fropuff 01:27, 2004 Oct 17 (UTC ... from the cosines rules of sides (see Haversine formula) Note that the distance (ab is ...
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Great-circle distance
... so have important applications in navigation. The formula Let \phi_1,\lambda_1;\ \phi_2,\lambda_2\,\!haversine formula was preferred, which is much more accurate ... right\}.\! (Historically, the use of this formula was simplified by the availability of tables for the haversine function: hav(θ)=sin 2 (θ/ ...
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Versine
... sin(\theta) \, the haversed sine or haversine (half the versed sine): \textrm{haversin ... it advisable to use the sin 2 formula for small θ.) Another historical advantage of ... for multiplications in formulas involving versines. The haversine, in particular, was important in navigation because it appears in the Haversine formula, which is used to accurately compute ...
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User:Salix alba/maths/maths redirect frequency
... directions -> Intermediate direction - 12 Nyquist-Shannon interpolation formula -> Nyquist–Shannon interpolation formula - 12 Necessary and sufficient -> Necessary_and_sufficient_conditions - 12 Irregular ... Minimax - 6 Mechanical wave -> Wave - 6 Mathematical formula -> Formula - 6 Material equivalence -> If and only if ... 1 factor -> Hyperfinite type II₁ factor - 5 Haversine -> Versine - 5 Hamiltonian cycle problem -> Hamiltonian ...
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Ex-meridian
... this information it is possible using the haversine formula to calculate the latitude where the position line crosses the assumed longitude. The formula is: \textrm{Hav.\, MZD} = {\textrm{Hav ... See also Celestial navigation Navigation Latitude Longitude Haversine formula Intercept method Longitude by chronometer References ...
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List of trigonometry topics
... Angle excess Chebyshev polynomials De Moivre's formula Dirichlet kernel Euler's formula Exact trigonometric constants Exponential sum Generating trigonometric tables Grad (angle) Gudermannian function Haversine formula Hyperbolic function Law of cosines Law of ... the latitude and longitude. Tangent half-angle formula Triangle Trigonometric function Cis Secant Trigonometric ...
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Longitude by chronometer
... for the time of observation. Using the haversine formula the local hour angle of the position ... be done with nautical tables using the haversine formula. \textrm{Hav.\, H} = {\textrm{(Hav. Z ...
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