Okay Mister Math Whiz

[Nanuq]

Here's what I'm working on today... who can figure out what I'm trying to accomplish?

When you get it figured out please send me your results. I'll just chill and drink some coffee until then.

[its_urabus]

Infinitesimal Calculus?

[Nanuq]

GONG!!!!

next?

[Justasgood]

How much bronzer to use in your tanning solution for pelts and skins?

[Demsey]

Gee, it's been a while since Navigation 303 in flight school.

You're probably trying to plan a rather long (longer than a Scout hike) horizontal traverse over a geographical plane. The maps you have need to be compensated for the Mercator Projection on a globe in order to follow a true Rhumb line to realize 'real world data' for the planning phase. You know, over a sphere, Pythagoras is wrong; the shortest distance between two points is a curved line. Wear heavy wool.

Here's the graph of the equation if it's any help;

Ironically, if you turn the graph 90 degrees, you can plot the new administration's economic performance since the inauguration.

The resultant curve is what we call in other aviation vernacular; Flying Blind.

[KB]

I'm to busy dividing by zero to bother with this petty stuff.

Ken

[Nanuq]

Demsey nails it! I knew the old celestial nav training would come through.

It's a Gudermannian transform of sorts... "real" latitude as a function of "fake" latitude on a Mercator projection. Toss in a transform for Mercator loxodromes and you're home and dry.

Pack lots of wool!

[Justasgood]

Are you sure?heck your variables again....I swear this is the formula we use down in 'Nawlins to Tan Gator hide.....