RPGLE calculate distance between two points - Using Latitude and Longitude

This uses the haversine formula to calculate great-circle distances between the two points – that is, the shortest distance over the earth’s surface – giving an "as-the-crow-flies" distance between the points (ignoring any hills!).

Haversine formula:	R = earth’s radius (mean radius = 6,371km) Δlat = lat2− lat1 Δlong = long2− long1 a = sin²(Δlat/2) + cos(lat1).cos(lat2).sin²(Δlong/2) c = 2.atan2(√a, √(1−a)) d = R.c (Note that angles need to be in radians to pass to trig functions).
JavaScript:	var R = 6371; // km var dLat = (lat2-lat1).toRad(); var dLon = (lon2-lon1).toRad();   var a = Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +         Math.cos(lat1.toRad()) * Math.cos(lat2.toRad()) *         Math.sin(dLon/2) * Math.sin(dLon/2);   var c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a));  var d = R * c;

RPGLE sample code (distance in miles)

h option(*srcstmt:*nodebugio)                              
h BndDir('QC2LE')  DftActGrp(*NO)                          
 *                                                         
 * Prototypes                                              
d ACosine         Pr             8f   ExtProc('acos')      
d  double                        8f   Value                
d Cosine          Pr             8f   ExtProc('cos')       
d  double                        8f   Value                
d Sine            Pr             8f   ExtProc('sin')       
d  double                        8f   Value                
                                                           
d  $home_lat      s             11p 6                       
d  $home_lng      s             11p 6                        
d  $away_lat      s             11p 6                        
d  $away_lng      s             11p 6                        
d  $distance      s              8p 2                        
                                                             
d  home_lat       s             11p 6                        
d  home_lng       s             11p 6                        
d  away_lat       s             11p 6                        
d  away_lng       s             11p 6                        
 
                                                          
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 *----- Main Routine                                         
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c     *entry        plist                                    
c                   parm                    $home_lat        
c                   parm                    $home_lng        
c                   parm                    $away_lat        
c                   parm                    $away_lng         
c                   parm                    $distance                            
                                                                                 
c                   eval(h)   home_lat = $home_lat/57.2958                       
c                   eval(h)   home_lng = $home_lng/57.2958                       
c                   eval(h)   away_lat = $away_lat/57.2958                       
c                   eval(h)   away_lng = $away_lng/57.2958                       
                                                                                 
c                   eval(h)   $distance =                                        
c                             ACosine((Sine(home_lat) * Sine(away_lat)) +       
c                             (Cosine(away_lng - home_lng) *                     
c                              Cosine(home_lat) *                                
c                              Cosine(away_lat))) * 3963.10                      
                                                                                 
c                   eval      *inlr = *on                                        
c                   return