Great suggestion, Richard! Not to mention, very simple to implement... Dave 37.29N 121.97W
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Richard Hollands wrote: > > Well I'm truly impressed with this spreadsheet though a little depressed by > it too - it's so professional. > > I have a suggestion. I've found it useful to included two extra columns that > give the distance from the hour point to the centre and to the noon point. > Then you can use a very simple method of construction. Put a peg in the > centre and noon points and attach one of those retractable steel tape > measures to each peg. (A loop of string round bamboo pegs works well). Then > you retract or extend the two rules, one in each hand, with them crossed > over in front of you while someone reads out the distances. All the hour > points can be very quickly marked this way. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > - > -
