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The great-circle distance from New York to London
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Across the curved Earth, the shortest path (the haversine great-circle distance) from New York to London is about 5,570 km — the number behind every flight plan and GPS fix. Worked & sealed by the engine — haversine(NYC → London) ≈ 5,570 km. [HOLDS; open the seal to re-check.]
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adjoining cards
- on the shelf of → The Works — sealed, worked demonstrations — a member of the the-works shelf in the keeping
- paves → The Floor of Discovery — one floor, and by its design the fear of God — A worked, engine-sealed demonstration — a paving-stone of the floor of reality.
- demonstrates → haversine(NYC → London) ≈ 5,570 km — A worked demonstration in the same field (geography).
- demonstrates → haversine(0,0 → 0,1°) ≈ 111.19 km — A worked demonstration in the same field (geography).
- adjacent → The carbon cost of a hundred kilometres — Neighbouring worked demonstrations in the same part of the volume.
- adjacent → The nested control-systems rule: meet a failure at its own layer — Neighbouring worked demonstrations in the same part of the volume.
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