<a href="http://gist.github.com/289645" rel="nofollow">http://gist.github.com/289645</a><p>I coded it in haskell, and it is faster, if it's a correct translation.  Without parallelizing, it clocks at 1.8 seconds, compiled with $ ghc --make.  If anyone plans to compile this you'll need to $ cabal install geodetic, before $ ghc --make filename.hs<p>1.8 Seconds seems a little too fast though...