Posted by Robert Hill on September 11, 2003 at 00:00:02 from 195.92.168.169 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Survey Problem-Geometry is better posted by Robert Dilley on September 10, 2003 at 12:29:57:
> I suspect that John put his bearings into points of the compass because he
> felt it was more "seamanlike" -- just as he sometimes put the time into "bells".
Yes, even when I read the book as a child I thought, "I wish Dick had been there - he'd have used degrees."