Don Barone Wrote:
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> Here I need to relate the story of a old time
> surveyor I worked with who really was from the old
> school and had never learned how to lay out
> circles by turning the deflection angles and
> measuring the chord and so he was faced with the
> difficult task one day of laying out a circle. I
> watched in awe as this old timer simply drew the
> circle to scale and then measured down to the
> circle from the tangent lines. Breathtaking in
> it's simplicity and more than accurate enough for
> what we needed.

That's a really fascinating story, Don ... one of the best things you've ever posted here.

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