as you probably realize grant our only fretting is purely ornamental upon
your magnificent working blueprint for the worlds first complete global
punctological & topological mosaic
this is easily not only the grandest but also the most pertinent
multidimensional try yet reported at bp
moreover it could well become the basis & bulwark of all our bp data systems
so i think it is fair to say our most excited & lighthearted thoughts go out
to you in this your extended moment of truth
m
>From: "granthutchison
>
>In case anyone's fretting about the non-appearance of my grand EEZ
>border survey, I'm struggling at present for internal consistency. If
>country by country you list all bordering countries, the result
>should *not* be an odd number. Nor should I have a country by country
>tripoint list that adds up to a number indivisible by three!
>But it's a hard and tedious job finding the errors in a list of (at
>present) 1043 border segments, classified as wet, dry, mixed or with
>Everyone's Land (the junction of EEZ and high sea).
>But here are some tasters:
>India has the largest number of border segments, 217, though these
>are with only 10 other countries. Bangladesh is even more extreme,
>sporting 202 border segments with only two other countries. It has
>two tripoints (one wet, one dry) and two binational quadripoints at
>the enclaves of Jote Nijama and Bara Saradubi.
>Of the other countries, the French empire gives France the largest
>number of tripoints (either 61 or 60, depending on the run of the
>Saint Martin/Sint Maarten maritime boundary), with 69 or 68 border
>segments adjoining 35 or 34 other countries.
>The UK interestingly has 6 more border segments than the USA, but 5
>fewer tripoints. How? It has 13 exclave borders (single country or
>high seas, therefore no tripoint), compared to the USA's two.
>
>Right, that's enough. Back to tearing my hair out.
>
>Grant
>
_________________________________________________________________
Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger:
http://messenger.msn.com