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Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts?

From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts?
Date	2012-03-13 13:57 -0700
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Daniel Pitts wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>> The term "bearing" comes to mind, and I recall "absolute" vs. "relative" - let me double check.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearing_(navigation)
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_bearing
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_bearing
>>
>> The term "bearing" matches what you want as the augend. The addend you want is "angle".
>>
>> So you add an angle to a bearing to get a new bearing.
>>
> Ah, that actually makes a lot of sense, and generally that matches the 
> use of the value.  It is use for things such as the heading of a robot, 
> missile, or other simulated item.

There's some code to model in Robocode:
<http://robocode.sourceforge.net/>

-- 
Lew

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What are the proper terms for these concepts? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-03-13 10:21 -0700
  Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 11:25 -0700
    Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-03-13 13:35 -0700
      Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 13:57 -0700
        Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-03-14 09:07 -0700
      Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-13 23:17 -0400
        Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-03-14 09:02 -0700
  Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 11:29 -0700
  Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? "Alex" <alex@foo.invalid> - 2012-03-13 21:49 +0000
  Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-03-14 15:30 -0700
    Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-15 01:09 +0000
      Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-14 18:24 -0700
        Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-15 22:05 +0000

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