Maybe something in here will match the thread:

Thanks, Gavin. Theory says that Lambert state planes work like this. I'm not a surveyor, so I have to use whatever measured lines I can find for testi...

I wonder how many spreadsheet conversions from degrees and decimals to degrees, minutes, and seconds suffer from the error for negative values outline...

Note the breadth of Gauss in surveying as well as mathematics.

Math is often just the framework or the model that lets us quantify the real world. Accountants use Assets = Liabilities + Capital as the general mode...

I hear you, Kent. The insurance holding company that I worked for more than 20 years ago had a title insurance subsidiary. Its president was a lawyer ...

Kent McMillan, post: 386975, member: 3 wrote: -- the triumph of the actuarial model in land title insurance? CorporationsWhat is the actuarial model i...

mkennedy, post: 386480, member: 7183 wrote: ...it's a useful technique.Indeed it is. I found Mintaka in the email address for Dr. Allen Shafter, the h...

Thanks, Melita. I did not find the aty. site. I followed a very tortured path of identifying email servers and searching in convoluted ways. That led ...

Here you go. This is a good bit of the missing paper. The class web pages on the Rohan server at SDSU were deleted back in May. I have no idea how I g...

Thanks, John and Loyal. I see in the formula, rho, the radius of curvature of the earth, multiplied by 2. That was one of the points covered in Profe...

No,that's not it. The paper is on Atmospheric Refraction. Here's a substitute site that's pretty good. Where it gives references, go to those.Ol' Penn...

John, that link takes the cake. I can't fix it.I found it on 8-11, read the article, and copied the link. It was written by Andrew T. Young, an adjunc...

TI owns the general math education market and they work hard at keeping it. I used an HP 12 C back in my financial services life. Bought in late 80s a...

BajaOR, post: 386015, member: 9139 wrote: .... Is there any reason to ever calc or use the reciprocal?In my first job out of college, I used a Monroe ...

Tom Adams, post: 386009, member: 7285 wrote: ...and if that is how they say it on the NGS data sheets, ...Thinking about it further, there is an elem...