<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><P>Sexaginta, Latin for sixty (as noun), or sexagimal (as ajective) might offer some possibilities. -Noel</P>
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<P><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Mikael Rittri" <Mikael.Rittri@carmenta.com><BR>To: proj@lists.maptools.org<BR>Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 6:12:18 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central<BR>Subject: [Proj] Terminology: what should I call 60 nautical miles?<BR><BR>Hello,<BR>I would like a term for the length unit that is 60 nautical miles. <BR><BR>This length unit would approximate one degree of <BR>arc distance, in the same way as one nautical mile <BR>approximates one minute of arc distance.<BR><BR>I have thought of the phrase "degree of arc distance" <BR>(which I think agrees, more or less, with how Snyder uses this phrase)<BR>but some of my colleagues dislike it. <BR><BR>I have also thought of the phrase "exēntanautical mile",<BR>from Greek "exēnta" = 60, but... <BR><BR>--<BR>Mikael Rittri<BR>Carmenta AB<BR>SWEDEN<BR>www.carmenta.com<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Proj mailing list<BR>Proj@lists.maptools.org<BR>http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/proj</P></div></body></html>