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Proposal on the Modification of Sailing Calculations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2009
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Methods of calculating the course and the distance between two points from a knowledge of their latitudes and longitudes, or calculating the latitude and the longitude of the arrival point from the course and the distance from a known departure point, are called sailings. Middle-latitude sailing and Mercator sailing have been widely used.
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