On Fri 2020-05-22T23:16:49-0700 Hal Murray hath writ: > It is a fiendishly difficult > math and physics task that, once completed, will have taken a decade and a > half to accomplish.
So fiendishly difficult that the first time the task was completed was not until 1899 The Transcontinental Triangulation and the American Arc of the Parallel Assistant CHAS. A. SCHOTT, Chief of the Computing Division, USC&GS ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cgs_specpubs/QB275U35no41900.pdf -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.