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Keeping you alertWhy do they put the kilometer markers where they do, for example 301.1 km, and as 300km was over an hours walk away, are these people messing with my mind
They are known as Mojones: not a far step in the evolution of language from Mahone as in pogue mahone. Their actual purpose escapes me but I guess they’re an excellent method of using up an embarrassing surplus of faux marble and scrap bronze while appearing to do something useful.Why do they put the kilometer markers where they do, for example 301.1 km, and as 300km was over an hours walk away, are these people messing with my mind
However when one suggests the dead simple (and dead accurate) alternative/cross check of Google SatNav directions one is told that "you can't go wrong with the markers"They are known as Mojones: not a far step in the evolution of language from Mahone as in pogue mahone. There actual purpose escapes me but I guess they’re an excellent method of using up an embarrassing surplus of faux marble and scrap bronze while appearing to do something useful.
It’s the ones standing proudly by the side of a dead straight track from which there is no possible deviation or diversion that make me chuckle most. Especially the ones that tell me I am precisely 307.357km from nowhere in particular (not including side-trips).
example 301.1 km,
Why they carry it out to 3 nonsensical decimal points is beyond my attention span. They are obviously so very, very, very, exquisitely accurate.307.357km
So that if the last digit is wrong, you know someone moved it more than a meter.Why they carry it out to 3 nonsensical decimal points is beyond my attention span. They are obviously so very, very, very, exquisitely accurate.
Because the instrument they use has that (and more) digits in its display.Why they carry it out to 3 nonsensical decimal points is beyond my attention span. They are obviously so very, very, very, exquisitely accurate.
A fellow fossil here, used these as well. It is a stabbing brain pain to see this 3 decimal ridiculosity. Just round it out to one decimal and call it a good day.When I trained as a civil engineer at the back end of the 1960s/start of the 1970s we used slide rules and log tables (don't ask). Addition and multiplication were done with a pencil. "Near enough" was generally "good enough".
I can imagine somebody not used to European standards thinking "FIVE THOUSAND Kilometres to go? What the . . . . "Walking into Santiago the other day in the Invierno/Sanabrés I passed by a rare ,000 marker.
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Reminds me of the story about Mt Everest - who was the first man to put two feet on top of Mount Everest?A fellow fossil here, used these as well. It is a stabbing brain pain to see this 3 decimal ridiculosity. Just round it out to one decimal and call it a good day.
No time to get those two sellos either! Ultreia y Suseia!Yep, that’s gonna come as a bit of a shock to the shiny geared who’ve done their 30 minutes out of Sarria - only 100 thousand km to go and only 5 days to do it in… better skip that second breakfast
And always too far!Numbers are only symbols. They only have meaning if we give it to them.... the distance between the markers is the same with or without numbers attached.
Keep walking, pilgrim!
Yes, of course!distance between the markers is the same with or without numbers attached.
No, whether we acknowledge them or not, numbers matter.Numbers are only symbols. They only have meaning if we give it to them....
Well I am an even older engineer (called a greaser in the old days) of the mechanical type and my choice would be 2 decimal places but not sure when a decimal point became a comma?Walking into Santiago the other day in the Invierno/Sanabrés I passed by a rare ,000 marker.
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Google "comma vs decimal point" or something similar and you will learn that the convention varies in different countries.not sure when a decimal point became a comma?
It does, in one interpretation - i.e. the rays converge toward the right, like paths converging on Santiago. Read all about it here.why does the shell not POINT to the same direction?
I meant point in the same direction as the ARROW - but never mind here is the final waymarker which IS pointing the right wayGoogle "comma vs decimal point" or something similar and you will learn that the convention varies in different countries.
It does, in one interpretation - i.e. the rays converge toward the right, like paths converging on Santiago. Read all about it here.
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