<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:21 PM eLLioTT morEton <<a href="mailto:em@swarpa.net">em@swarpa.net</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div>[snippety]<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Jim: Apropos of very little, I once mused about how to calculate the <br>
shape of the path a squirrel would take if it were trying to climb a tree <br>
quickly while remaining out of sight of a pedestrian walking in a straight <br>
line past the tree. I called the shape a squiral, but didnt actually work <br>
out a formula for it...<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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 :-(<br></div><div><br></div><div>[snippety] <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">________________________________________________________________________________<br>
# Hutch<br>
squoyle -- n. -- (Am. Plains states, especially south central Nebraska)<br>
correct width of a quarter-section farm field, approx 2,550 to 2,600 feet.<br>
(For unscrupulous surveyor: Berwyn M Squoyle, notorious for platting<br>
approximately 600 square miles over a period of five years with short<br>
measures in order to sell the "extra" sections for his own benefit;<br>
murdered in July 1898 outside Ansley, Nebraska).<br>
<br>
Pierre: I'm in a metes-and-bounds state, but I had to learn about division <br>
of public<br>
lands, so I'm pretty sure I'd have heard of this.<br>
<br>
Jim: Well, it cant be by Elliott, so perhaps David crafted this one? <br>
Honorable mention.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>[snippety]<br></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div>BB,</div><div>Hutch</div><div> </div><div>-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----</div><div>Version: 3.1</div><div>GCM/S d+>- s+:+ a++ C+++$ ULAC>$ P+ L+ !E W++$</div><div>N+ o K? w++++/--$ O? M- V? PS+ PE/- Y PGP- t++ 5?</div><div>X-- R !tv? b++++>$ DI++++ D G+> e++ h+ r--?* y++></div><div>------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------</div></div></div>