After 10 years I think my absence of a mathematical education has finally come to hurt me in a programming setting. I need to calculate the distance between two points on Earth using a Great Circle ...

Units of speed are always a unit of length per unit of time. Different units of length and time may be chosen depending on the situation. This makes it easier to read the measurements. For example, ...

Most fiber optic transmission systems are designed to work with one of two types of fiber optic cable: single-mode or multimode. The glass core in the center of single-mode fiber is thinner than in ...

Last month, I closed this column with a script that can return latitude/longitude values for two addresses, with the intent ultimately being to have the script calculate the distance between those two ...

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An underrated feature in Google Maps is the ability to measure the distance between two or more points. It can aid tremendously with planning, whether you’re aiming to walk or go on a road trip.

As the need for bandwidth rises and the cost of fiber optics drops, fiber is beginning to replace copper cable in many network topologies. And the cost of fiber is expected to be on par with copper ...

Google recently updated its desktop version of Maps with a new feature that lets users measure the distance between two or more points on the map. To toggle this option, right-click on a starting ...