[time-nuts] NYTimes: New geoid soon

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2020-05-22T23:16:49-0700 Hal Murray hath writ:
> It is a fiendishly difficult
> math and physics task that, once completed, will have taken a decade and a
> half to accomplish.

So fiendishly difficult that the first time the task was completed was
not until 1899

The Transcontinental Triangulation and the American Arc of the Parallel
Assistant CHAS. A. SCHOTT, Chief of the Computing Division, USC&GS
ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cgs_specpubs/QB275U35no41900.pdf

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