French translation for "great-circle distance"

distance du grand cercle

Example Sentences:

	1.	The haversine formula determines the great-circle distance between two points on a sphere given their longitudes and latitudes. La formule de Haversine permet de déterminer la distance du grand cercle entre deux points d'une sphère, à partir de leurs longitudes et latitudes.
	2.	They are based on the assumption that the figure of the Earth is an oblate spheroid, and hence are more accurate than methods that assume a spherical Earth, such as great-circle distance. Ces formules utilisent l'hypothèse que la Terre est un sphéroïde aplati aux pôles (en), ce qui permet d'obtenir des résultats plus précis qu'avec la distance du grand cercle qui suppose que la Terre est sphérique.

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