Kim, you are very bad!
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.
I've just noticed that Ivan's trackery SCIENCE now includes a "Distance from Marsh Gibbon" line. Can this be added to the Tarzan-o-Matic 2000 as welL
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 12 February, 2015, 10:44:44 amI've just noticed that Ivan's trackery SCIENCE now includes a "Distance from Marsh Gibbon" line. Can this be added to the Tarzan-o-Matic 2000 as welL Your wish is my command
Is that 'as the crow flies' or 'as the gibbon swings'?
Cross-country crows fly along great circles.
Quote from: T42 on 13 February, 2015, 10:53:13 amCross-country crows fly along great circles.Really? I assumed they fly rhumb line routes using a constant bearing from celestial bodies / magnetism. Travelling along a great circle requires either stretching a string between your start and end points, a gnomic chart, some spherical trigonometry or vector maths.