Subject: Re: first complete try apparently confirms about 500 tripoints<br/>
Date: May 07, 2002 @ 19:02<br/>
Author: granthutchison (&quot;granthutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-874929943">Michael: <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; i have found your apparently most probable grand total of sea <br/>
 </span></blockquote>tripoints 342<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; & likewise your apparently less probable totals of 344 & 346 <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; including some unknown nz & tonga vagaries<br/>
 </span></blockquote>The New Zealand and Tonga variants go together - either they have a <br/>
maritime border (and two attendant tripoints with Everyone&#39;s Land) or <br/>
they don&#39;t, and Everyone&#39;s Land is directly connected to the South <br/>
Fiji Basin. So the count is either 346 or 342, giving 173 or 171 as <br/>
the overall count after division by 2. Which, you&#39;re right, doesn&#39;t <br/>
match the Everyone&#39;s Land list - somehow I&#39;ve got one more tripoint <br/>
in the EEZ boundaries list than in the Everyone&#39;s Land list.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; so a preliminary question is whether you can easily explain this <br/>
&gt; slight wobble in the data<br/>
 </span></blockquote>And a preliminary answer is &quot;No.&quot; I can only explain it after some <br/>
difficulty! So I&#39;ll need to get back to you after I&#39;ve waded through <br/>
the data again.<br/>
(One reason for uploading this stuff in preliminary form was the hope <br/>
that someone would be able to spot some inconsistency that has eluded <br/>
me for months.)<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; so i am wondering<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; can you or anyone confirm or adjust this total <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; before we call it a first complete world class total try<br/>
 </span></blockquote>My current sums on the International Boundaries spreadsheet give 160 <br/>
dry, 159 wet and 173 with Everyone&#39;s Land, for a total of 492.<br/>
<br/>
G</div>