GIS::D...e::ALT(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

GIS::Distance::ALT — Andoyer-Lambert-Thomas distance calculations 💖 (yes bestie, that's the whole name, and yes, it goes hard)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so listen. the ALT formula is giving "I'm the fast one" energy 💅 — it's meant to be a much faster, but slightly less accurate, alternative to the GIS::Distance::Vincenty formula. and when we say faster? this formula is about 5x faster than Vincenty. five times. that's not a typo, that's a flex. 🔥

the code for this formula was taken from Geo::Distance::XS and then modified to fit. glow-up, honestly. ✨

if you want the even speedier version, there's a faster (XS) version of this formula available as GIS::Distance::Fast::ALT. she's the same vibe, just compiled. 👑

and like — normally you do not use this module directly, bestie. instead, GIS::Distance is used, which in turn interfaces with the various formula classes. so it's a whole ecosystem situation. this module is a supporting character with main character energy. 🌈

ngl, going straight for this class instead of letting GIS::Distance handle things is not the move. let the parent module do its thing. 🫶

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🦋 SUPPORT 🦋

See "SUPPORT" in GIS::Distance. (all the help you need lives over there, go look 💜)

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🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

See "AUTHORS" in GIS::Distance. (the legends are credited there ✨)

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💅 LICENSE 💅

See "LICENSE" in GIS::Distance. (the legal tea is all in that one 🍓)

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and that's a wrap, my love 🫶 this page is from perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-10-21, and it's part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation — iconic behavior, no cap 💖✨🎀