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To: blam

The angle between the magnetic and geographical pole is called variation, not declination.


15 posted on 12/21/2007 9:47:05 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart

Webster’s Dictionary has both declination and variation for the angle between the magnetic and geographical pole, but when I was in the Air Force we always called it variation.


18 posted on 12/21/2007 9:58:49 PM PST by zot
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