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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "L. A. Nadybal"
<lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> Yeah, except that the Indo-Bangla enclave borders often
(perhaps even
> usually) follow the berms around someone's rice patty.
haha-sheesh!
> Is the straight line irrigation channel that was found in
existence,
> was previously only thought to be the border, and was agreed
upon to
> be the straight line border during delimiting a disqualifier? If
so,
> discard the list I posted and ignore Brendan's details.
ahh len thank you very much indeed for this confirmation of the
commonness of these rice paddy borders
which i could until now only guess & hope might be the case
this new knowledge for me already substantially advances my try
for whether the berm ridge is meant or some part of the channel
& whether the paddies have ever followed geometric lines or not
etc etc
all these cooch behar borders are now looking increasingly
shifty & physical
as i had initially surmised & mentioned
rather than so fixed & geometric as has been subsequently
suggested
so my guess is much encouraged if not yet fully confirmed
that most if not all the supposed cooch behar candidates are
vanishing before our eyes into the realm of fractals & asterisks
even tho they dont all technically have natural borders
but often actually have manmade fractal ones
nice to notice also that in this case at least man is part of nature
> >this is just my shorthand or code for something that was
> >discussed at much greater length previously.
>
> What was it called previously when it was discussed? (Don't
answer,
> it's rhetorical for acroorca's sake).
hahaha
rhetoric yet too
> Your question, as I recall it without going back to look, was
"what is
> the shortest border?", not "how short is the shortest border".
To
> answer that, one need not know the actual border length - only
the
> area. The "worst case" scenario to beat is all you need to get
you to
> the answer of which enclave has the shortest border.
but len the you you are talking about needing stuff here isnt me
& whether you take the trouble to look or not
or even just the trouble to think or not
it simply isnt possible to determine what the shortest border is
without detaining oneself over what its actual length is
& comparing that length with the lengths of the other candidates
or it mightve been possible if this hadnt been such a close race
but not when there are several real contenders down the stretch
as there clearly are here
yes confirmation by actual comparison is of the essence here
just as it was in determining the shortest state line in america
the scenario to beat is 209 meters geodetic
& i just dont understand how you could be so confused not only
about what i am trying but about what you yourself are saying
> > it just depends on what is actually known
> > & i am still trying to determine that