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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
If we take this as latitude, longitude, compass bearing, it points from Copley Square directly towards Manchester, NH.
I was thinking this too but after playing around I came to conclusion that this isn't quite right. FIRST headquarters is at 200 Bedford St., Manchester, NH 03101 which according to http://www.capelinks.com/cape-cod/maps/geocode/ is at 42.989618, -71.46754 and then using great circle navigation accounting for WGS84 modeling yields a bearing from true North of 335.82928497115023. Accounting for magnetic declination doesn't help. Just too much precision to account for other locations in Manchester, NH.
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