Liberal Education – Bits of .NET http://blog.ercanopak.com Daily micro-tips for C#, SQL, performance, and scalable backend engineering. Sun, 28 Jul 2024 09:02:30 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://blog.ercanopak.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-EO_LOGO_32-32x32.png Liberal Education – Bits of .NET http://blog.ercanopak.com 32 32 Why nautical mile equals 1852 mt http://blog.ercanopak.com/why-nautical-mile-equals-1852-mt/ http://blog.ercanopak.com/why-nautical-mile-equals-1852-mt/#respond Sun, 28 Jul 2024 08:53:46 +0000 http://blog.ercanopak.com/?p=1100 In terms of distance, a nautical mile is equal to 1,852 kilometers.

People commonly use it to measure distances at sea or in the air.

The use of NM, the internationally agreed-upon measure of one nautical mile, which is exactly 1.852 meters, remains in place today.

 

Calculation: 

  • Consider the equator as a circle, it can be divided into 360 degrees.
  • Then, one degree can be split into 60 minutes, of which one minute of arc on Earth is one nautical mile.
  • That means you must divide Earth’s Circumference (40.000.000 meters) into 360 and then 60.
The nautical mile and astronomical navigation, image definition NM
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