On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:57 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > And they are -- degrees latitude and degrees longitude are very different > > units :-) > > Greg said *distances*, not coordinates or angles. People DO sometimes use lat/lon as distances— particularly latitude, where 1 minute is a nautical mile. But anyway, a humorous one-off. But it makes the point that there is no one way to handle units that works for everyone. An astonishing amount of “real work” is done with “squishy” units. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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