On Apr 20, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Ed Shaya wrote:
> Although I would prefer to use hh mm ss.ssssssss since quad
> precision is way overkill.
Obviously not overkill if your mission requires this level of precision. Sexigesimal notation is one simple and familiar way to implement a hierarchical coordinate mapping scheme to partition the high order and low order bits (or bytes or words or strings) for easier handling. One size rarely fits all.
Rob Received on 2006-04-21Z00:36:59