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Yep, it's mostly used in for navigation, especially as a backup in case GPS fails (in the case of a lightning strike on a sailboat, for instance, probably all your electronics are toast). The military still uses it with slide rules/log tables, in case of jamming, etc. It kind of "disappeared" sometime after WWII, and there aren't many new books on it, but you'll see it come up in computer graphics and animation quite a bit, and I'm pretty sure it's used extensively in surveying still.


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