Originally posted by Sight2reality
For the love of god!
Is anyone actually paying attention to this thread!?!?!?!?!
It is based upon easy math, easy math that is completely incorrect!
Yes the math is incorrect, but not by as much as you think. If you look back at the initial post...
by RebelSaint
33.33 degrees of the great circle of the earth represents 2012 nautical miles.
To which you responded...
by Sight2reality
The earth's circumference is approximately 21,600 Nautical Miles. So get out your calculator's and multiply that by 33%. Yep, that is 7128 Nautical
Miles. A far far cry from 2012......
Sight your math is correct, but I think you misunderstand the initial post. He said 33
degrees, not 33%...BIG difference.
According to
this site the earth's circumference at the equator is 21,639.19 nat.
miles.
While 33% of this is 7213.06 nat. miles, I don't think that's what he's talking about.
A circle has 360 degrees, so 33.33 degrees is 9.2583% of the whole ((33.33/360)*100). So 9.2583% of the earth's circumference is (21639.19*.092583) =
2003.428 nat. miles. Not exactly the 2012 it's suppose to be, but not off as much as you seem to think. I played around with the numbers and 33.47
degrees would be needed for the 2012 nat. miles. Of course that's assuming that the measurement of the circumference is totally accurate, which is
almost impossible. Given that no one has a measuring tape 22,000 nat. miles long, I think that's pretty darn close.