Urban planners and land surveyors are natural enemies, or so it seems when we surveyors struggle to accommodate Byzantine zoning regulations and arbitrary…
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FeedBack: Absolute Accuracy, The Pier Stone, and Errata
Absolute Accuracy, The Pier Stone As usual another excellent publication, I especially like Marc’s comments related to Dr. Abdullah’s article and the need…
Book Review: William A. Richards: Diaries of a Frontier Surveyor in Nebraska and Wyoming
This reviewer shall initiate this book review by ‘returning’ to a Wyoming secondary school in 1958 (an arbitrary date sentimental to the reviewer)….
Test Yourself 88: The Three Radii
Isosceles triangle abc has three equal radii circles inscribed as shown. What is distance db if ad equals 1.000? For the solution to…
FeedBack: New Wave of Attacks on Surveying
I heard an interesting political analogy the other day, and it caused me to reflect on the many discussions and varying interests within…
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Gannet’s Observatory Great article about the U of Oregon observatory in Eugene and especially the work of Samuel Gannett. While sadly the observatory…
Test Yourself 87: Beside Yourself
Find the area of triangle ABC in terms of its sides only, and without using Heron’s formula. For the solution to this problem…
Test Yourself 86: Another Missing Part
Given the angles shown, what is angle BDC? The solution can be found HERE
Test Yourself 85: Areas, again
In parallelogram ABCD area BCQ contains 77,554 square feet and area XQA contains 36,307 square feet. What is area CDXQ?. The solution to…
Test Yourself 84: A Circles Circus
There are six areas in the drawing below: the quarter-circle, the semi-circle, the full circle, the deltoid triangle x-B-y, the circular triangle y-C-z,…