Actually it is slightly worse than that. Your computation was in avoirdupois ounces of 28.35 grams. Precious metals and gems are weighed in troy oun...

Thank goodness they used his quote. Maybe it won't turn into a 4-corners news fiasco."We're trying to reestablish where the original line was," said ...

To tie the threads together:[msg=41521]First description and pictures[/msg][msg=41725]Prior computatons[/msg]The mean of the ephemeris corrections was...

The no-erasing or obliterating idea (you cross out so it remains legible) was pounded into us in college a few decades ago, under threat of flunking t...

The tone of that forum makes Beerleg look downright polite and politically correct by comparison.

The instructions seen to have not been consistent in this regard. My wife's family has some land just south of the first correction line in Iowa, and...

Iowa has some similarly small sections at its border with Minnesota. Early surveyor Ira Cook wrote in his memoirs about an place where he was running...

Several Considerations.Your explanation of determining the variances makes sense.The older ephemeris data for star pair 9 looks like an outlier, and s...

I thought of DEFLEC also, but didn't bother to figure out where Kent was going with this computation. I think the other thread included the original ...

This looks like a feasible approach, subject to several considerations. It might be a little over-thought for the value of the tweaks you can make to...

Einstein said that things should be made as simple as possible, and no simpler.A very good guideline. Sometimes analogies are good, but if they are n...