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By Matt Rosenberg, About.com Guide to Geography since 1997

Decimal Degrees vs. Degrees, Minutes, Seconds

Wednesday March 29, 2006
Guest columnist Len Morse discusses the history of the metric system and its use (or lack thereof) along with how and when degrees, minutes, and seconds are used versus decimal degrees in his article, Decimal Degrees vs. Degrees, Minutes, Seconds.

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