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Before reinventing any wheels, I recommend a good look at the CPAN modules in the Geo:: namespace, in particular Geo::Distance and Geo::Coordinates.

However, most of the pre-supplied routines and methods tend to do the opposite of what you want to do, i.e. "What's the distance between A and B where the lat and long are known.

My $0.02 --rinceWind

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