I'm wondering if there are any obvious rule-of-thumb ways to guess or recognize "great-circleness".
It seems like such calculations are (too) full of compound trig functions to intuit easily? On 9/19/21 1:53 PM, Edward Angel wrote: > Close: https://www.airmilescalculator.com/distance/clt-to-hnl/ > <https://www.airmilescalculator.com/distance/clt-to-hnl/> > _______________________ > > Ed Angel > > Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory > (ARTS Lab) > Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico > > 1017 Sierra Pinon > Santa Fe, NM 87501 > 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > >> On Sep 19, 2021, at 1:48 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com >> <mailto:wimber...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Not to change the subject but... >> >> A large airliner recently, 15 minutes ago, flew over Santa Fe headed >> west. My Flight Radar app tells me that it's a Boeing 777 going from >> Charlotte to Honolulu at an altitude of 38000 feet. I wouldn't have >> thought that Santa Fe was on a great Circle route between those two >> cities. But maybe it is. >> >> --- >> Frank C. Wimberly >> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >> Santa Fe, NM 87505 >> >> 505 670-9918 >> Santa Fe, NM >> >> .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. >> .- - . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> >> archives: >> 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> <https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/> >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> <http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/> > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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