Subject: Re: double line bug & nautical miles<br/>
Date: Nov 24, 2001 @ 03:41<br/>
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-42909250">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Grant Hutchison &lt;granthutchison@b...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;  &gt; west of wlong 124d 05m 00s 00000  presumably nad83<br/>
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&gt; What latitude? And are we talking west-along-that-parallel or west-from-<br/>
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&gt; there-along-the-great-circle?<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>dyou mean you need to know the freakin latitude too  well of course ahem  it is n46d15m precisely to as many digits of zero as you like  &  i had thought we were absolutely talking due west here rather than loxodrome due west if that is what you mean but i confess i am already dizzy to think about the difference between the 2 so maybe you can add your opinion of what this fairly conventional legalese federally approved interstate compact must really mean even sight unseen considering our divinity<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
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&gt;  &gt; in 1954 they were probably conceited enough to think they were <br/>
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&gt; splitting the<br/>
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&gt;  &gt; atom but in 2001 all these 5 digits are given with real feasibility by<br/>
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&gt; the best<br/>
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&gt;  &gt; gps receivers arent they<br/>
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&gt; Um. Well... 0.00001 times 1ft (~30cm) is ~3 *microns*, for goodness <br/>
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&gt; sake. I can&#39;t think of a way to hold anything that *steady* at sea, even <br/>
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&gt; if the GPS sats were honed in tight enough.<br/>
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&gt; It would be crazy to come up with a conversion factor like that out of <br/>
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&gt; the blue. There must&#39;ve been some intermediate stage, some standard that <br/>
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&gt; was measured out in imperial units, some calculation that was done by a <br/>
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&gt; hair-splitting jobsworth somewhere.<br/>
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&gt; Grant<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>hahahahahahahahahaha<br/>
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precisely<br/>
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& there must have been some especially creative focus upon this particular variegation<br/>
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& it might well be both arbitrary & crazy enough to be true<br/>
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  & thus a nutshell cameo of the fine art of try pointing itself<br/>
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so full steam ahead matey<br/>
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& i am already wondering if your 5digit federal standard is an algorithm or irrational or in any way rationally discernible or traceable etc<br/>
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but i halt & pause to wonder if my recent unconscious resumption of natural carriage returns has made any difference to anyone<br/>
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