On Wednesday 16 April 2003 01:18 pm, you wrote:
A natural boundary, such as a river, has a length that depends on how closely
you measure it.
BJB

> But CA-NV wouldn't be the longest border between two states, straight or
> not. The OK-TX border for a good distance is the meandering Red River.
> There's no basis to say that doesn't count as distance and that one should
> draw an imaginary "straight" line instead to cut the corners. The boundary
> is the boundary line itself.
>
> What is the length of the CA-NV boundary and the OK-TX boundary?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian J. Butler [mailto:bjbutler@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 9:39 AM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: American State Boundaries
>
>
> On Wednesday 16 April 2003 11:19 am, you wrote:
> CANV is certainly the straight-line champ. If we "go fractal" maybe
> ID-MT, OK-TX, or even VA-WV would take the cake.
> BJB
>
> > nice question & nice answer
> >
> > how about canv for longest
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Brian J. Butler
> >
> > <bjbutler@b...> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 16 April 2003 09:50 am, you wrote:
> > > The shortest is easy - at AZ-CO-NM-UT there are two pairs of
> >
> > states that meet
> >
> > > at a point.
> > > BJB
> > >
> > > > Which state shares the longest border with another state?
> >
> > (The border
> >
> > > > does not have to be continuous.) Which state shares the
> >
> > shortest?
> >
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