[Fictionary] SQUOYLE results

[Hutch]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:21 PM eLLioTT morEton <em at swarpa.net> wrote:

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> Jim:  Apropos of very little, I once mused about how to calculate the
> shape of the path a squirrel would take if it were trying to climb a tree
> quickly while remaining out of sight of a pedestrian walking in a straight
> line past the tree. I called the shape a squiral, but didnt actually work
> out a formula for it...
>

I saw a video on YouTube a while back where the guy did work out a formula
LIKE this one, not identical. I looked for it today, but couldn't find it
:-(

[snippety]

>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> # Hutch
> squoyle -- n. -- (Am. Plains states, especially south central Nebraska)
> correct width of a quarter-section farm field, approx 2,550 to 2,600 feet.
> (For unscrupulous surveyor: Berwyn M Squoyle, notorious for platting
> approximately 600 square miles over a period of five years with short
> measures in order to sell the "extra" sections for his own benefit;
> murdered in July 1898 outside Ansley, Nebraska).
>
> Pierre: I'm in a metes-and-bounds state, but I had to learn about division
> of public
> lands, so I'm pretty sure I'd have heard of this.
>
> Jim:  Well, it cant be by Elliott, so perhaps David crafted this one?
> Honorable mention.
>

There's actually a clue hidden in plain sight there. There *is* actually a
town called Ansley, Nebraska. If you zoom in far enough on Google Maps, you
will find a few miles outside of Ansley, the town of Berwyn: from which I
named my villain. :-)

[snippety]

BB,
Hutch

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