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
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