Back in the Sash
Finally returned to sunny Warsash. I have really missed this place. Enjoying it already. Plenty of stories to swap about sea time etc. It seems I have been very very lucky to be with Chevron. No-body has had quite as good a trip as myself, although they all sound interesting. I am only writing a short amount as I am tired and quite lashed (thats modern talk for drunk!) Only to say we had our first lesson of what is to be 5 weeks of maths today. The teacher started by writing "2+3=" on the board. It got a little harder after that when we had to write something after the "=" sign. But that really was as taxing as the lesson got. Needless to say I am glad to be catching up on my otherwise very rusty maths. We are assured we will learn spherical trig and other exciting things during our Maths tuition. Cant wait!
Ciao!
R
posted by Rob @ 10:55 pm
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Spherical Trig
Not difficult, quite easy especially if you already know Plain Trig.
Just working with different Numbers ie degrees, minutes & seconds instead of Linear,s.
Versines & Haversines & a couples of extra formulae that's all.
ptsm.
Spherical Trig - well well well.
It always was spherical trig but in my day - they called it Celestial Navigation.
As it seems you don't do that any more (essentially) they have to call it something I suppose - why not "Sherical Trig" - makes sense - I suppose.
Capt (Ret'd)
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