Degrees, minutes, seconds

David Gibson david@caves.org.uk
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:17:10 +0100


In article "Survex digest, Vol 1 #296 - 1 msg" in <!survex>, on Thu, 24
Apr 2003 Graham Mullan <graham.mullan@wotcc.org.uk> wrote

>It would seem to me that <DEG>.<MIN>' is far too close to <DEG>.<MIN>, as
>used to enter degrees and decimals thereof and might therefore cause errors
>to arise.

Use a colon?

E.g. 34:40:30  is the same as 34:40.5

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David Gibson