[at-l] Engineering Question about PUDs

[eisenbud+at-l@cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Eisenbud)]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:14:27AM -0600, TJ Fort <tjfort@netdoor.com> wrote:
> Does this take into account the difference in altitude?  and, the fact the
> earth is not a true sphere? and, therefore it would not be a true arc
> neither?

Probably not, but I bet those effects are small enough not to matter for
any useful purpose.  The earth is pretty darn close to a true sphere.

-Dan

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