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Newton’s Method for Solving the Inverse Geodesic Problem in IDL

April 12, 2013April 12, 2013 Sean IDL 1 Comment on Newton’s Method for Solving the Inverse Geodesic Problem in IDL

There are a number of approaches to solve the inverse geodesic problem, this post provides the IDL code to use Newton’s method as described by Karney (2012) in ‘Algorithms for geodesics‘.    

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Negative Array Index in IDL

November 16, 2012 Sean IDL 1 Comment on Negative Array Index in IDL

Chris blew my mind this morning when he showed me what happens if you use negative numbers to index an array in IDL (in versions lower than 8!). I would argue that it gives something that you don’t want, this is how you fix it.

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OS Detection in IDL

October 25, 2012 Sean IDL 2 Comments on OS Detection in IDL

A lot of what I do in IDL involves using paths all over the place, the problem is, I want my code to work in Windows or Linux, but we of course have that old problem of / v \.

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Random number between two numbers in IDL

September 9, 2012September 25, 2012 Sean IDL Leave a Comment on Random number between two numbers in IDL

Generating a random number, or an array of random numbers, between 0 and 1, in IDL is easy. Simply call upon RANDOMU. But how do you generate random numbers between two other numbers?

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