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Questions on systems to uniquely determine position of a point or other geometric element on a manifold such as Euclidean space.

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Determining latitude and longitude in bad weather

In Sobel's famous book 'Longitude', she described the story of Harrison. I still have one question. What if it is cloudy on the sea? In this case, the sailors have nothing to compare with, right? This …
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