deg2nm
Convert spherical distance from degrees to nautical miles
Description
Examples
Convert Arc Length to Nautical Miles
One degree of arc length is about 60 nautical miles, using a spherical model of the Earth.
deg2nm(1)
ans = 60.0405
This is not true on Mercury, of course.
deg2nm(1,'mercury')
ans = 22.9852
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Output Arguments
Version History
Introduced in R2007a