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The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.
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German map in use in 1905 still showing the undivided Bechuanaland area
Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.
Its design provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions, and therefore it found lasting use in applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, most notably system software like the Unix computer operating system.
Low-cost systems use a radar altimeter, barometric altimeter and clock to navigate a digital strip map.
In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map ( Universalis Cosmographia ) bearing the first use of the name " America ".
A topographic map is primarily concerned with the topographic description of a place, including ( especially in the 20th and 21st centuries ) the use of contour lines showing elevation.
Most maps use text to label places and for such things as the map title, legend and other information.
So a map made in English may use the name Germany for that country, while a German map would use Deutschland and a French map Allemagne.
Even in the former case, the exclusive use of an exonym may be unhelpful for the map user.
It will not be much use for an English user of a map of Italy to show Livorno only as " Leghorn " when road signs and railway timetables show it as " Livorno ".
This is a method map designers use to alter the starting " HP " of players on a map ).
Visitors to degree confluences almost always make use of GPS receivers, but visits can be achieved using only a map on the appropriate datum, or a map on another datum but with the appropriate correction applied.
Each map uses a different selection of tiles laid out in a specific pattern, which may not use all of the tiles.
:* Strange attractors – use iterations of a map or solutions of a system of initial-value differential equations that exhibit chaos ( e. g., see multifractal image )
Those countries marked in dark blue on the map above use Western European Summer Time and advance their clock one hour in summer.
Land use map of Honduras, 1983
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By knowing the coordinates of an object ( usually given in equatorial coordinates ), the telescope user can use the setting circle to align the telescope in the appropriate direction before looking through its eyepiece.
The Greek mathematician Menaechmus solved problems and proved theorems by using a method that had a strong resemblance to the use of coordinates and it has sometimes been maintained that he had introduced analytic geometry.
One can use the same principle to specify the position of any point in three-dimensional space by three Cartesian coordinates, its signed distances to three mutually perpendicular planes ( or, equivalently, by its perpendicular projection onto three mutually perpendicular lines ).
In general, one can specify a point in a space of any dimension n by use of n Cartesian coordinates, the signed distances from n mutually perpendicular hyperplanes.
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) Conversely, it is often helpful to use the geometry of Cartesian coordinates in two or three dimensions to visualize algebraic relationships between two or three of many non-spatial variables.
If instead we use polar coordinates with the origin at one focus, with the angular coordinate still measured from the major axis, the ellipse's equation is
Yet another advantage of the NIST curves is the fact that they use a = − 3 which improves addition in Jacobian coordinates.
The modern standard for maps of Mars ( since about 2002 ) is to use planetocentric coordinates.
To analyze the motion of a body moving under the influence of a force which is always directed towards a fixed point, it is convenient to use polar coordinates with the origin coinciding with the center of force.
The use of symbols and the order of the coordinates differs between sources.
However, some authors ( including mathematicians ) use φ for inclination ( or elevation ) and θ for azimuth, which " provides a logical extension of the usual polar coordinates notation ".
A common use in elementary physics is resolving a vector into Cartesian coordinates.
These contain pages of " drill charts ", which often either give a picture or list coordinates that band members use to find ' pages ' or ' sets ' on the field.
One use of this is wireless push technology, by pushing data across wireless networks, this coordinates the link transfers and pushes data between the backend and wireless device only when an established connection is found.
He made important contributions to the field of cartography, where he was among the first to use geographical coordinates.
Maps of the stars in the night sky use declination and right ascension as coordinates.
This method only provides the position in two coordinates and is more difficult to use than GPS.
It is convenient to use the angles between each limb and the vertical as the generalized coordinates defining the configuration of the system.
There are ways of describing curves without coordinates, using intrinsic equations that use invariant quantities such as curvature and arc length.
Using the statewide grid commonly in use in Oklahoma, Albion's coordinates are T2-2N-R21E.
The sun is most commonly used, but navigators can also use the moon, a planet or one of 57 navigational stars whose coordinates are tabulated in the Nautical Almanac and Air Almanacs.
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He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.
The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.
As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.
Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.
The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.
Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.
Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.
A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.
It was the use of the supernatural that kept them in business.
It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.
The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;
It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.
He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.
At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.
The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.
One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;
Eugene offered Harold his car, to use at any time he cared to, and when this offer was not accepted, the armchair creaked.
I use the phrase advisedly because there was something positively indecent about our relationship.
Another example is the recent cancellation of the F-108, a long-range interceptor with a speed three times as great as the speed of sound, which was designed for use against manned bombers in the period of the mid-1960's.
This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.
Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.
Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.
Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.
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