On Mar 17, 8:43*am, Dave Typinski wrote:
Hello all,

I have run into a few older papers that have some angular measure
notation with which I'm unfamiliar.

For example, 0.'25 and 0."25, with the quote marks directly over the
decimal point in each case.

I suspect that these denote 25 arcmin and 25 arcsec respectively, but
I'd like to be sure about that. *

Can anyone confirm what this notation is supposed mean?

I would have thought that these would mean 1/4 of an arcminute and 1/4
of an arcsecond respectively. I know I've seen it used in that sense.

John Savard