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Mathematica
26 lines
990 B
Mathematica
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function deg = km2deg(km)
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%KM2DEG Convert distance from kilometers to degrees
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%
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% DEG = KM2DEG(KM) converts distances from kilometers to degrees as
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% measured along a great circle on a sphere with a radius of 6371 km, the
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% mean radius of the Earth.
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% DEG = KM2DEG(KM,RADIUS) converts distances from kilometers to degrees
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% as measured along a great circle on a sphere having the specified
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% radius. RADIUS must be in units of kilometers.
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% DEG = KM2DEG(KM,SPHERE) converts distances from kilometers to degrees,
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% as measured along a great circle on a sphere approximating an object in
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% the Solar System. SPHERE may be one of the following strings: 'sun',
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% 'moon', 'mercury', 'venus', 'earth', 'mars', 'jupiter', 'saturn',
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% 'uranus', 'neptune', or 'pluto', and is case-insensitive.
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% See also DEG2KM, KM2RAD, KM2NM, KM2SM.
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% Copyright 1996-2009 The MathWorks, Inc.
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% $Revision: 1.10.4.4 $ $Date: 2009/03/30 23:38:30 $
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rad = km/6371;
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deg = rad2deg(rad);
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