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General Science / Re: What is the GPS of the highest point of BIG BEN using 3 percengates: (%, %, %) ?
« on: 22/03/2024 11:51:40 »Also, is less confusing.If we're on the subject of needlessly confusing systems, I'd like to know what bright spark thought it was a good idea to call a longitudinal measurement latitude and a lateral measurement longitude. If you apply the same logic to a tape measure my garden path is a hundred feet wide and three feet long.
And whilst we're on the subject of minutes & seconds, I think it's a crying shame that luddites defeated the decimal clock, too.