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- From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
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- Subject: Re: HP Monitor models
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.001128.5142@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:11:28 GMT
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- From: taft@adobe.com (Ed Taft)
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- >Also more complicated. Many people think the earth's magnetic field is
- >nice and regular and is aligned with the earth's axis. Not so. The
- >north magnetic pole is somewhere in northern Canada, and the magnetic
- >variation (angle between true and magnetic north) has a range of about
- ^^^^^^^^^
- >25 degrees just within the continental United States.
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- It is called "declination".
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- Jon "about 3 degrees here" Papai
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