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- Subject: Re: Curve-Smoothing (was: Holiday Road Period)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.232644.18700@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>
- From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 23:26:44 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.132556.13273@waikato.ac.nz> <1993Jan20.173058.1920@gaya.gp.co.nz> <H.ea.tpLLhpcQDLc@yonder.equinox.gen.nz>
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- In article <H.ea.tpLLhpcQDLc@yonder.equinox.gen.nz> craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz writes:
- >In <1993Jan20.173058.1920@gaya.gp.co.nz>, Martin D. Hunt writes:
- >
- >>"Before overtaking you must -
- >>* be able to see the road in front so you can still see 100 metres when you
- >>have finished passing."
- >
- >And how many of the older generation understand how far 100 metres is????
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- And how many of the younger generation don't realise that the conversion
- between metres and yards is almost trivial.
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- For the purposes of estimating this order of distance it _is_ trivial. Anyone
- who has been metricated will simply substitute yards for metres and get the
- answer near enough right.
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- Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz -- Fujitsu New Zealand --
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