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It always amazed me that people would have a service or item added to the cost of the house instead of paying for it out-of-pocket now, thereby gettin...
Tomorrow (Friday) is the last day to bid on this book. Looks like Nicholas is going to get a bargain.
@not-my-real-name Yep, trapezoids will do that to you.
@paden-cash When I first started surveying I heard a story about a surveyor (engineer?) who laid out a house parallel with the lot l...
In a closed figure deflection angle traverse the sum of the deflections in one direction (usually clockwise) should equal 360?ø. If the traverse cros...
@nicholas-labedzki The book is still available. I was going to wait until the end of the week to let everyone have a chance at it be...
@mathteacher I taught an evening class one time titled "Intragalactic Azimuth Determination", or how to shoot Polaris.
@dmyhill Maybe the SO and the GF are two different people.
How about a Polar Planimeter, a beam compass (to 30"), a proportional divider (11 points), a map measurer (graduated in eighths of an inch), and an Ac...
When they ask what credit cards I take I tell them "Only gold bullion" or "Cash only, in unmarked bills wrapped in brown paper and tied with a string....