Problem 1371. Altitude of locations on the earth

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Ned Gulley on 21 Mar 2013

Dan, could you provide some more specifics here? Altitude in meters, feet, or furlongs? Against what reference? Number of significant digits you expect? Latitude and longitude are in decimal degrees? An example would also help.

Dan on 21 Mar 2013

Thank you for suggestions

Michael C. on 22 Mar 2013

I like test #7. Although doing it the "right" way, I seem to get decimal precision on the negative values which caused it to fail the test suite.

Dan on 28 Mar 2013

Fixed tests with negative values and rescored solutions!

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 22 Mar 2013

the expected level of precision of the responses seems a bit unreasonable (<1 nanometer?), perhaps you could allow +-1% error in the returned altitude responses?

Dan on 22 Mar 2013

Modified tolerance of the answers.

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