On 21-Mar-12 04:34, Mark Rages wrote:
> Suppose I have some measurements of an angle as integer degrees in the
> range [0, 359].
>
> I would like to find an average of these measurements as an estimate
> of the true angle.
>
> A simple numerical average doesn't work:  Suppose the measurements are
> 0, 1, 359.  Then a simple average is 120, but the number I'm looking
> for is zero.
>
> Is there a standard algorithm to do what I want?

Yes, of course there is:
http://abelian.org/vlf/bearings.html

Djula

>
> Regards,
> Mark
> markrages@gmail
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