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Triangulation with a compass

Then you need only 2 landmarks !

You indeed still use 3 landmarks, the last one only happen to be really, really far away (North direction) and this is just a special limit case of the previous situation (when the arc of the circle tend to a segment when N tend towards the North direction)


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Pascal Vuylsteker / eScience / Computer Science / ANU
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