Re: Worldmap mercator projection - Latitude to Y calculation. - last try

Daniel70 <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:59:05 +1100

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On 26/01/2026 11:43 pm, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> On 2026/1/26 11:13:59, Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 26/01/2026 2:01 am, R.Wieser wrote:

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>>>> Isn't language fun!
>>>
>>> Almost as funny as math.  :-(
> 
> Well, I enjoy it. (Can't really help it in my family - both parents were
> language teachers and brother works for the dictionary.) And I do enjoy
> _some_ maths (UK spelling!) too.

As much as it grates on me, I can, sort of, accept the Yank 'Math' ... I 
mean the full word IS 'MathematicS' and, if you were going to truncate 
it by dropping the tail-end, then ALSO dropping the 's' makes sense 
..... but it sounds so awkward!!
-- 
Daniel70