Very interesting. Where is Marquette County? How about getting Jefferson County to convert all their surveys to feet.
Neal PS: Didn't you ever run into any 3:4:5 triangles? On Jan 46, 1120092007, at 8:35 AM, Lee Larson wrote: On Jan 5, at 4:06 PM, Neal Hammon wrote: > Lee, you are certainly correct, but I can see you have never done > any surveying. No survey that I ever heard about had a boundary > using yards. If you check the Kentucky Department of State, you > will find that the first 30,000 surveys made in Kentucky used the > measurement of poles and chains for the boundaries. Au contraire! When I was in high school, I worked for the Marquette County land office surveyer. She was doing a state mandated check of boundary lines and road rights of way. One of the pains was to translate the old chain/pole/link measurements done around 1900 by the CCI surveyors into feet to two decimal places for the more modern equipment, because chains were no longer being used. I got the job because I was the only applicant who could use trigonometry to solve a triangle not containing a right angle. It was a question on the application form. I still know chain=66 feet, pole=chain/4, link=pole/25 It amuses me that the original definition of the acre was a rectangle with width one chain and length one furlong because in the 1600s Edmund Gunter decided that was the right amount of land for one farmer to work. _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
