Re: Calculating coordinate intersections?

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From	Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
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James Dow Allen wrote:

> Some of the answers make this over-complicated.

“Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

> Calculate the angle to the target.
> Calculate the angle the gun is fired.
> Subtract to get the angular error.

Your suggestion is simpler, but has the downside of failing to actually 
work.  Think about it for a moment, particularly the relation between the 
radius, the angle, and the tangent function.

Rui Maciel

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Calculating coordinate intersections? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2013-03-19 15:17 -0700
  Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-03-19 18:26 -0700
    Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2013-03-19 21:53 -0700
      Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-20 02:05 -0500
        Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2013-03-20 13:19 -0700
          Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-03-20 21:42 +0000
          Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-20 23:48 -0500
  Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? rouben@shady.(none) (Rouben Rostamian) - 2013-03-20 05:27 +0000
    Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2013-03-19 23:39 -0700
      Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-20 00:33 -0700
  Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-20 23:41 -0700
    Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-03-21 13:18 -0700
      Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2013-03-21 23:02 -0700
        Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-03-21 23:28 -0700
    Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-03-21 21:40 +0000
      Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2013-03-21 23:03 -0700
        Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-03-22 08:36 +0000
          Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-03-22 07:16 -0700
        Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-22 01:49 -0700
  Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-03-21 21:26 +0000
    Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? notme <notme@notme.org> - 2013-03-22 00:31 -0700
  Re: Calculating coordinate intersections? "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2013-03-22 13:08 -0700

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