Prev: iPad battery lunacy
Next: Can't download waypoints to eTrexH GPSR
From: zoara on 26 Mar 2010 17:08
Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> wrote:
> In article <1jfyex7.nf1nxnmzroyN%peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid>, Pd
> <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > Or indeed, unless you're talking about the Indian inch, which is
> > > > about
> > > > 0.02539997 metres.
> > [...]
> > > Your claims are only true if you use a very loose and woolly
> > > definition
> > > of `now' that includes centuries past in your definition of `now'.
> >
> > I'd be willing to bet money that somebody in India right *now* is
> > using
> > a measuring stick/tape/pigeon marked out in Indian inches to mark
> > out a
> > plot for building.
>
> How could you tell? By your own figures the difference is about 30
> nM.
> I really doubt that any measuring instrument used by a builder could
> demonstrate that sort of accuracy.

Not even a pigeon? They're pretty accurate you know.

-z-


--
email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
First  |  Prev  | 
Pages: 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41
Prev: iPad battery lunacy
Next: Can't download waypoints to eTrexH GPSR