No Association Whatsoever Thread

[Alison]

Mince pies are gold dust in Chipping Campden.

[Beef Oven!]

Phil Hateley stamped his feet

[Petrushka]

Your call is important to us.

[gradus]

King of the pippins

[Alison]

'Most rescues could have taken place without Thundebird 1.' Discuss.

[teamsaint]

Blame it on the Bossa Nova.

[mangerton]

The 6550 is a high power beam tetrode valve used mainly as an audio power amplifier.

[EdgeleyRob]

A face like a bullgog licking piss off a thistle.

[teamsaint]

Actually, I do need to pop into town for some bits.

[MrGongGong]

marmoset

[EdgeleyRob]

The haversine formula1 ‘remains particularly well-conditioned for numerical computation even at small distances’ – unlike calculations based on the spherical law of cosines. The ‘versed sine’ is 1-cosθ, and the ‘half-versed-sine’ (1-cosθ)/2 = sin²(θ/2) as used above. It was published by Roger Sinnott in Sky & Telescope magazine in 1984 (“Virtues of the Haversine”), though known about for much longer by navigators. (For the curious, c is the angular distance in radians, and a is the square of half the chord length between the points). A (surprisingly marginal) performance improvement can be obtained, of course, by factoring out the terms which get squared.

Just as I thought.

[Beef Oven!]

To scotch a rumour, whisky is better than whiskey.

[Tevot]

wake me up before you go - go.

[Padraig]

It has nothing to do with you or me, or with anybody else.

[Alain Maréchal]

Well I suppose some like it hot, personally I prefer classical music.