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GCA700 cedar.. yep
At 08:27 PM 1/23/2004, you wrote:
- huh? Is this for a cache?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce S" <bruces1321@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:45 PM Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Math Lesson?
> - > I am a mathematician and yes this one can be figured out before hand. To > find where the point is you need to find the distance between the two given > points and the bearing between these points. (you can do this using gps and > putting both points in and putting in as route leg) From this you can get > the direction to the cache by adding or subtracting 60 degrees from bearing > and the distance will be the same as the distance between the 2 points. > (remember this is an equilateral triangle) Actually there are 2 possible > points but one will end up in river. > > Bruce > > > >From: Bernie <happykraut@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Math Lesson? > >Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:28:11 -0600 > > > >- > > There is a palm based program called NavCalc that will do that for you. > >Bernie > > > >P ekey wrote: > > > >>Help! I need a math lesson. I'd like to try to find the Cedar cache > >>(GCA700), and from reading the logs, I might get lucky and just stumble > >>into it, but I'd rather do the math first. I suppose I could go to > >>midpoint between the two coordinates provided and project a waypoint to > >>the final location, but there must be a better way to figure out the final > >>waypoint on paper. Can anyone point me to a website that could explain how > >>to triangulate waypoints? Or simply send directions? > >>Thanks, > >> Tribble 157 > >> . . . not a mathematician > >> > >> > >> > > > >*************************************************************************** * > >Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. > >//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching > >Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html > >*************************************************************************** * > >To unsubscribe from this list: > >send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the > >Subject field > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Check out the coupons and bargains on MSN Offers! > http://shopping.msn.com/softcontent/softcontent.aspx?scmId=1418 > > **************************************************************************** > Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com > Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching > Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html > **************************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list: > send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > > > >
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