After 10 years I think my absence of a mathematical education has finally come to hurt me in a programming setting. I need to calculate the distance between two points on Earth using a Great Circle ...

Last month, I closed this column with a script that can return latitude/longitude values for two addresses, with the intent ultimately being to have the script calculate the distance between those two ...

We can use formulas to model real-life situations. For example, the formula for calculating speed is speed = distance ÷ time. It is possible to calculate the speed, distance or time if you have the ...

The total length of the bar represents both the total distance and the total time taken. The bar is divided into parts. Each part represents the speed as a distance per unit of time. The number of ...