Re: GreatCircleDistance
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- Subject: [mg102367] Re: GreatCircleDistance
- From: Roland Franzius <roland.franzius at uos.de>
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:28:48 -0400 (EDT)
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Kevin J. McCann schrieb:
> When I type
>
> ?GreatCircleDistance
>
> I get
>
> System`GreatCircleDistance
>
> Attributes[GreatCircleDistance]={Protected,ReadProtected}
>
> Yet there is no entry in the Documentation or on the website. Any ideas?
In the Geodesy package there are two distance functions SpericalDistance
and SpheroidalDistance.
Perhaps it is a primitve in the demo
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ShortestPathBetweenTwoPointsOnASphere/
--
Roland Franzius