Many of my colleagues gave me strange looks when I would say that the further modern families get from farms and farming, the harder it becomes for ch...

Holy Cow, post: 345212, member: 50 wrote: Practical application is what so many teachers leave out of their presentations. Probably because the path ...

Sun is poking out now. We had 1.49 inches at the airport in Greensboro from about 11pm last night to about noon today. Ditches are full, ground is mud...

Although I'm not a surveyor and am now retired as a math teacher, I can't help but post something here, especially after Dave's comment above.Truth is...

We get what's left of it Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Our forecast is for an inch and a half over ten to twelve hours.Sounds like you're gett...

Warren Smith, post: 342897, member: 9900 wrote: I think this is a County line, the retracement of which is governed by State Statute. The Georgia Sec...

What gets me about the NC- SC realignment is that Google Earth clearly shows where the line is and that the aforementioned convenience store is firmly...

We had a similar dispute in NC between Guilford County and Alamance County. The state surveyor redid the line and some historically Alamance residents...

I'm far from being an expert, but I believe that, in most jurisdictions, the real estate agent represents the seller and has minimal, if any, responsi...

Sometimes a note from one manufacturer will help with another. Maybe this one will be more helpful.

This link addresses the problem for Hemisphere. Near the bottom of the page is an additional information section. Click on the JNMEAGGAALLGNSS link in...

Explore this site. I've never used DeLorme products, but they seem to be interested in finding uses beyond travel and recreation for inexpensive GPS r...

Wow. Who knew?

When I first read the heading for this thread, I thought that Holy Cow was proposing to move Illinois to another location. Question after question pop...

squowse, post: 333115, member: 7109 wrote: by algebra i get a=0.509 and r=0.287 on first attempt. I haven;t checked it though, just 3 mins. didn;t rea...

That's what I got. An "exact answer" for r is r = sqrt(2)/(1 + sqrt(2pi) + sqrt(2)). Bill probably has a simpler expression, but I've always done thin...

I got Bill93's answer with a quadratic equation. a = 0.5562092371, r = 0.3138074579. For those who hate lots of decimal places, remember that it's imp...