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  2. Mathematical discussion of rangekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: Rangekeeper Coordinate System. The coordinate system has the target as its origin. The y axis value range to the target. US Navy rangekeepers during World War II used a moving coordinate system based on the line of sight (LOS) between the ship firing its gun (known as the "own ship") and the target (known as the "target").

  3. Line of sight - Wikipedia

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    Line-of-sight fire, shooting directly at a visible target on a relatively flat trajectory. The target is in the line of sight of the sighting device and the rifleman's rule applies. Line-of-sight range; Line-of-sight (missile), the straight line between the missile and the target; Radar horizon

  4. Line-of-sight propagation - Wikipedia

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    Line of sight (LoS) propagation from an antenna. Line-of-sight propagation is a characteristic of electromagnetic radiation or acoustic wave propagation which means waves can only travel in a direct visual path from the source to the receiver without obstacles. [1] Electromagnetic transmission includes light emissions traveling in a straight line.

  5. Sightline (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The uppermost tier could have only 2 or even 1 different step heights. It is the lowest rows of seats that are the most sensitive to the impact of the C-value because of the very flat view angle to the touch line. The higher seats can have a reduced C-value without impacting as seriously on the clear view of the field of play.

  6. Template:Round - Wikipedia

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    Rounds (parameter 1) by (parameter 2) decimal places, and formats. Scientific notation is used for numbers greater than 1×10^9, or less than 1×10^−4. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status number 1 The number to be rounded Number required decimal places 2 The number of decimal places, if negative the number is rounded so the last (parameter 2) digits are ...

  7. Sight reduction - Wikipedia

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    Sight is defined as the observation of the altitude, and sometimes also the azimuth, of a celestial body for a line of position; or the data obtained by such observation. [1] The mathematical basis of sight reduction is the circle of equal altitude. The calculation can be done by computer, or by hand via tabular methods and longhand methods.

  8. Round-off error - Wikipedia

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    Round-by-chop: The base-expansion of is truncated after the ()-th digit. This rounding rule is biased because it always moves the result toward zero. Round-to-nearest: () is set to the nearest floating-point number to . When there is a tie, the floating-point number whose last stored digit is even (also, the last digit, in binary form, is equal ...

  9. Rounding - Wikipedia

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    For example, rounding x = 2.1784 dollars to whole cents (i.e., to a multiple of 0.01) entails computing 2.1784 / 0.01 = 217.84, then rounding that to 218, and finally computing 218 × 0.01 = 2.18. When rounding to a predetermined number of significant digits, the increment m depends on the magnitude of the number to be rounded (or of the ...