My first thought was that, if the rhumb line's length is finite, it
shouldn't take forever to reach the pole. Just as the hare didn't take
"forever" to catch the tortoise.
But the rhumb line, even though its bearing is constant, does encircle the
pole an infinite number of times. So you'd get horri
Speaking of rhumb lines, if my understanding of logarithms is right, rhumb
lines, if extended far enough, will forever encircle either pole without
actually reaching it, but the length of the line will approach a finite, not
infinite, value. Kind of like Zeno's paradox, and my run-on sentences.
Greetings fellow dialists,
Nowadays, oil exploration is conducted within government concessions.
These are areas defined by a succession of points, often at sea, to form
a closed box. All you do is join the points on a chart and you have your
concession plotted. But how do you join the points? D
My earlier note with the spreadsheet was too large for the mailing list size
filter. The spreadsheet is available at
http://www3.telus.net/public/rtbailey/WalkingShadow/EWQiblah.xls The earlier
note follows.
Hello Mashallah,
Today was one of the two days in the year when the sun at noon was d
Dear Dialling Colleagues,
I'm please to report that I have just got my broadband back after 12 days
off-air following the lightning strike. As you can imagine, I have something
of a backlog!
You can all send me your articles for publication in the BSS Bulletin again!
Regards,
On Jul 15, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Brooke Clarke wrote:
> The photoshop print size is based on 72 DPI which at one time was
> the common
> printer resolution. If your DPI setting is not 72 then the actual
> print size
> photoshop displays will be incorrect.
In the spirit of nit picking, I'll poi
