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I don't remember the details, but IIRC grads are used in range finding. Something along the lines of:

I either read this in some Army field manual or maybe my father tried to explain it to me.

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Re^5: Perl Humor
by CountZero (Bishop) on Jan 05, 2005 at 22:36 UTC
    No, no, it are "mils" you are thinking about. 1 mil is the arc of one meter seen at a distance of 1 km. There are about 6400 mils in a full circle.

    CountZero

    "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

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