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Old November 26th 04, 10:21 PM
Judah
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Jose wrote in
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The 90/270 has a tremendous advantage when making turns and
remembering where to turn.

The system is called the 'sum of the digits'

Take any number of the heading indicator and add all three of
its digits and keep adding until you get a single digit... (math
snipped)



Cool piece of math (even more interesting =why= it works, and how it
translates into other bases). However, to find my entry, I just look
at the DG and pick the number that's off to the side. I turn there,
then turn opposite onto the course. No math needed. The ten degrees
one way or another doesn't make any difference.

Jose


Because you're adding 90 to the numbers each time, and our math system is
10-based. If you add 9 to any number in a 10 based system, you are adding
1 to the 10's digit, and subtracting 1 from the 1's digit. The result is
if yo uadd the new digits, they will equal out.

It's easier to see if you take a single digit number, add 9, and add the
digits... It will illustrate the same point.


1 + 9 = 10 1+0 = 1
2 + 9 = 11 1+1 = 2
3 + 9 = 12 1+2 = 3

 




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