Path: news.ccsf.jp!norn-news!CALA-MUZIK!nh1.u-aizu.ac.jp!news.tains.tohoku.ac.jp!news.gw.fukushima-u.ac.jp!honnetnews!yynet.tama.tokyo.jp!netaidnews!news.jpix.netird.ad.jp!jpix!newsfeed2.kddnet.ad.jp!newsfeed2.kddnet.ad.jp!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: junoexpress Newsgroups: alt.math.recreational,de.sci.mathematik,fr.sci.maths,japan.sci.math,sci.math Subject: Re: GPS Math Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 23:48:56 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <57KdnZg2DpGqR1zVnZ2dnUVZ_vzinZ2d@earthlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.53.130.33 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1220683736 11259 127.0.0.1 (6 Sep 2008 06:48:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 06:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com; posting-host=134.53.130.33; posting-account=3WPJYgoAAAA55VjhzK9i07RN8h8u8eEs User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Tablet PC 1.7; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp japan.sci.math:135 On Sep 5, 9:07=A0pm, "Jon G." wrote: > I saw it on the History Channel... three giagantic spheres looming over t= he > planet Earth, and the narrator said, "GPS is based on the intersection of > three spheres from three satellite transmissions, at two points." > Wow! The History Channel! What a solid scientific source. Dude, I am like so impressed. Forgive me for ever doubting you for even a time- stamped nano-second. BTW, did you ever figure out what the pseudorange was? M