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  2. Dead reckoning - Wikipedia

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    In navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating the current position of a moving object by using a previously determined position, or fix, and incorporating estimates of speed, heading (or direction or course), and elapsed time.

  3. Set and drift - Wikipedia

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    In order to utilize set and drift in navigation, navigators must first set the course using Dead Reckoning. A Dead Reckoning, DR, is calculated by using a previously determined position on a chart, and advancing that position based on known or estimated speed over a set amount of time. This can be calculated by using the formula Speed ...

  4. Slide rule - Wikipedia

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    This is a circular slide rule first created in the 1930s for aircraft pilots to help with dead reckoning. With the aid of scales printed on the frame it also helps with such miscellaneous tasks as converting time, distance, speed, and temperature values, compass errors, and calculating fuel use.

  5. Inertial navigation system - Wikipedia

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    An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, the orientation, and the velocity (direction and speed of movement) of a moving object without the ...

  6. E6B - Wikipedia

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    This was for the Model C, D and G computers widely used in World War II by the British Commonwealth (as the "Dalton Dead Reckoning Computer"), the U.S. Navy, copied by the Japanese, and improved on by the Germans, through Siegfried Knemeyer's invention of the disc-type Dreieckrechner device, somewhat similar to the eventual E6B's backside ...

  7. AI death calculator can predict when you'll die... with eerie ...

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    The tool can also determine how much money you'll have when your time comes. Researchers analyzed aspects of a person’s life story between 2008 and 2016, with the model seeking patterns in the data.

  8. An IHOP server fed a man facing homelessness. She says she ...

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    Victoria Hughes says she was fired from IHOP after feeding a man who was hungry. She has since been offered her job back.

  9. Celestial navigation - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of a typical nautical sextant, a tool used in celestial navigation to measure the angle between two objects viewed by means of its optical sight. Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the practice of position fixing using stars and other celestial bodies that enables a navigator to accurately determine their actual current physical position in space or on the ...