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A Party Chief used a barometer to measure the height…
of a building. Why did he get fired?
Answer: because he was sleeping with the boss’s wife.
OH HA HA HA!
> You all are missing my point.
> Who uses them for real?
> Handy to compute and arc-length – ok, I’ll give you that.
>
> Next time one of you guys or gals has nothing better to do, take one of your plats wtih lots of bearings in DMS and convert the entire thing to be in radians. Take it to the county to file or give it to a knowledgeable client and see how that goes over. 🙂
> E.didn’t miss the point…I think you did. For geodetic computations, State Plane Coords, etc (anything that may not involve a trigonometric function in the equation/calculation), angular values (lat, long, whatever) are always required to be in (or converted to) radian measure.
yes, Excel requires radians but it is true the final answer is given in DMS.
> yes, Excel requires radians but it is true the final answer is given in DMS.
Its regardless of the software / hardware used, certain calculations require the dimensionless (scalar) quality of radians – there are no units to worry about cancelling out in calculations.
Yes, angular dimensions have inherent meaning in DMS units after comps.
A Party Chief used a barometer to measure the height…
Rimshot!
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