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On 08/12/2010 10:10 AM, Charles H. Sampson wrote:
>
>       You're right, of course.  I was being a bit too elliptical.  I
> should have said Navy programmers (and Navy mathematicians, for that
> matter).  In the U. S. Navy, a bearing of 0 degrees is due North, 90
> degrees is East, etc.

This is also the convention used in aviation.

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Jeff Carter
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