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hermes said:Let someone else do the map-reading pip, 90 and 180 degrees are east and south!empip said:the Northern and Western most points (90° and 180°)D
A convention universally adopted in mathematical writing is that angles given a sign are positive angles if measured counterclockwise, and negative angles if measured clockwise, from a given line. If no line is specified, it can be assumed to be the x-axis in the Cartesian plane.
In navigation, bearings are measured from north, increasing clockwise, so a bearing of 45 is north-east. Negative bearings are not used in navigation, so north-west is 315.
Blimey, take care skipper .. did it look like a map?
I used two systems .. decided not to use the same one twice.
Hokay?
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