Mercury was north of Venus and their latitude difference was a third of a degree.

If the latitude difference is expressed in arc minutes then the distance is in nautical miles.

That'll give us the latitude difference, and if we know they're oh forty-five of us, we can pin them down to a mile."

He was a remarkable statesman who worked both in the southernmost and in the northernmost territories of the empire with a latitude difference of more than 35 .

Now find the point N on the equator which is such that the number of equatorial degrees in ON is numerically equal to the latitude difference (45 for AM on the unequal scale).