Hi David,
On 27 Jun 97, 08:10, you wrote to John Gardeniers
 JG>>>> I've only ever worked with degrees, not radians, and have
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 >> I recall my maths teacher once tried to teach us to use
 >> radians. He gave up when he couldn't find a single good reason
 >> for doing so. :-)
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 DK> See what we lost when we lost the draft?  (US Army draft, that
 DK> is.) If your teacher had been in the Army, he'd have learned in
 DK> machine gun (or mortar)(or artillery) training all about radians.
 DK> Well, mils actually.  Same idea.
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 DK> "Lessee, I know that tank is 10 meters long .. and it's 20 mils
 DK> wide, measured right here in my handy-dandy GI binoculars .. so
 DK> that makes it ... hmmmm .. how far away?"
 DK> The solution is Left As An Exercise For The Student.
He, he, he ;->  500 meters of course. And when I was in the army pi was
approximated as 3.2 ...
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