Re: Worldmap mercator projection - Latitude to Y calculation. - last try

On 2026/1/27 9:58:3, Paul wrote:

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> want to be chased down a hall, with a pitchfork. He was one of
> my favorite characters because he could derive *everything*
> from first principles. He would start at 10AM with a yellow
> pad of quad-rule paper, and derive Greens Theory, and for the
> 1PM class, he would put a solid ten pages of notes on the
> blackboard (in one hour). In other words, he did not work from "canned notes".
> The ink was still wet at 1 PM.

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If we're swapping lecture anecdotes:

At school (not uni), we had the very opposite of the above: Mr. King in
geography used _his_ notes from when he was at school (the same school).
He _had_ added a footnote about North Sea Oil (this was the 1970s).

At uni, I once dozed off while actually in the act of taking notes; on
examination afterwards, the letters just got smaller over about three
words, then stopped.

"This is a one-line proof - of we start sufficiently far to the left."

Old professors never die - they just lose their faculties.

-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Intelligence isn't complete without the full picture and the full
picture is all about doubt. Otherwise, you go the way of George Bush.
- baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller (former head of MI5),
Radio Times 3-9 September 2011.