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Re: spherical geometry (was Re: navigation riddle)

Here's the outline:

1) The legs of the triangle are by definition geodesically
straight.
2) That means each leg is a piece of a great circle, since
we are dealing with a spherical world.


Wait a minute.

Didn't we begin by walking East a mile or so from a pole?

That's not a Great circle.

When did I miss a turn off track?
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Clarence Bennett
Oakland University Physics
Rochester, Michigan
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