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This intersection is an arc of agreatcirclewhose endpoints lie on this meridian.
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For these samples the pole of the best-fit plane defined by thegreatcirclepath of the data was calculated.
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Each of these two-sphere generators have agreatcirclewith the same name as a generator for the planar problem.
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Each of these two-spheres generators have agreatcirclewith the same name as a generator for the planar problem.
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These -+ spheres all intersect in a commongreatcircle.
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A common characteristic is that the data track along agreatcircle.
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From what is left we remove all strips centered atgreatcirclearcs that are intersections of twodimensional planes with the unit sphere while retaining the central arcs.
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This remains true on a hemisphere (within which the axis is a great semi-circle), but a fullgreatcirclecould contain as many as 2t + 1 distinct points.
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Fuller was to construct or propose a series of transitional domes between 1949 and 1955 that corrected the mistaken structural assumptions of the firstgreatcircledome.
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You must deal with this exceptional situation in such a way as not to violate the sense of moral justice in agreatcircleof these people.
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In order to reduce the distance to the 1,860 miles you have to fly agreatcircle, which takes you in the north up amongst the icebergs.
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This is not the shortest distance between the chosen endpoints on the parallel because a parallel is not agreatcircle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Topographic isolation is the minimumgreatcircledistance to a point of higher elevation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The 109th meridian west forms agreatcirclewith the 71st meridian east.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The 70th meridian east forms agreatcirclewith the 110th meridian west.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thegreatcircleseparating hemispheres is called celestial horizon or rational horizon.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The 115th meridian east forms agreatcirclewith the 65th meridian west.
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