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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

And can tell you in ten charcters, or less.
http://www.nacgeo.com/nacsite/documents/nac.asp

Pretty geeky, eh? But damned clever.

2

I get a “page cannot be displayed” error. Bummer.

3

I’m astounded by this. I work in the land title industry, in the IT department, and the ability to uniquely identify and parcel of land in the world in ten digits makes me positively giddy.

I just drooled a little.

4

You’re not ANYWHERE!! :eek:

5

See? Eight characters.

6

I lurves me a good notational system, and this is pretty fascinating. One thing I’m curious about (for those who have managed to parse the ins and outs of it better than I at this point): why only go to 30?

I saw what seems to have passed for their rationale:

But surely the English capital vowels (in this case, A, E, I, O, U, and Y!) are also familiar to all those languages, aren’t they? That would make the system a Base 36 system, surely much more evenly divisible for all those degree-type measurements.

Wouldn’t this have made more sense, or am I missing something?