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Old March 16th 04, 08:52 PM
Ben Jackson
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Teacherjh wrote:
Can you tell me how many nautical miles separate the two lines, at the
point of widest divergence?


-102.934677557 40.1266731277 5.99724483075
6nm

Can you tell me how much longer the long line is?


Since it looks like it just 'bows' the line slightly the worst case would
be 2*6nm, or 12nm, and it's probably not even that.

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