The directions are at \(90°\) angles on the compass rose. The four ordinal directions are Northeast (NE), Southeast (SE), Southwest (SW) and Northwest (NW). They are halfway between the cardinal ...

Earliest records show a spoon shaped compass made of lodestone or magnetite ... The inner circle had the eight trigrams and the outer circle the 24 directions (based on azimuth points).

You can specify the eight compass points N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, and NW as keywords for the POSITION= option. The following statements create the display in Figure 45.5, which demonstrates all eight ...