Yo
So we just confirmed my calculation by three different methods here.
Someone is publishing the following:
33.063924198120645
as the latitude; the precision here is 1 x 10^-15 degree.
The earth's radius is 6,378 km according to wikipedia or
6.378 x 10^6 meters
This gives a circumference of 2 * pi * r = 4 x 10^7 meters
The fraction of the circumference represented by 1 x 10^-15 degree is
10^-15 / 360
multiplying this by the circumference of the earth gives
10^-15 * 4 x 10^7 / 360 = 1.1 x 10^-10 meter
about the size of an atom. Actually I should correct for the fact that
the circumference of the 33rd parallel is not the same as the
circumference of the earth but this is only about a ten percent correction.
J "of course I could be wrong" T
Eric Fede wrote:
> Jeff Templon wrote:
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>> Little known facts:
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>> 1) the most popular place to put an LCG site is the north pole
>>
>> 2) some sites know their location to approximately the diameter of a
>> carbon atom.
>>
> Hi
>
> The good procedure to have the green flag on the good place on lcg map
> http://goc03.grid-support.ac.uk/googlemaps/lcg.html is :
>
> Start the google earth , find your building, put the latitude and
> longitude found on RGMA. $
>
> I am sorry Jeff, the location is not the diameter of a atom but more
> the size of a car ;-)
>
> Eric
>
>> JT
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>> Today's attribute: GlueSiteLatitude
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 1.376059
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 18.55
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 25.0621
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 25.067
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 28.92
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 31.908
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 32.112
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 32.190
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 33.063924198120645
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 35.0
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 35.34
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 37.0
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 37.5
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 37.7
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 37.9785
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 37.999
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 38.739925290125484
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 39.21
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 39.2500
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 39.51
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 40.12
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 40.37
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 40.4042
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 40.4167
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 40.45464
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 40.5033
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 40.636
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 40.852
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 40.87
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 41.1261
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 41.384730
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 41.39
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 41.5
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 41.65
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 41.797
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 42.1
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 42.4
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 42.41
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 42.67
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 42.8559
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 42.8667
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 43.07
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 43.2311
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 43.67
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 43.8198
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 44.23
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 44.4889
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 44.8378
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 44.8575
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 45.1
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 45.21
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 45.30
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 45.4077
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 45.4567
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 45.829950529080364
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 46.0
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 46.04217
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 47.2639
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 47.5
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 48.0033333
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 48.171
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 48.20
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 48.71
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 48.72230406591397
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 48.7318
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 48.733
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 48.8
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 49.01055556
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 49.0540
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 49.45
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 49.51
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 50.06711179963095
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 50.07
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 50.7493
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 50.7814
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 50.8333
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.0333
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.246
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.426812
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.459020831263764
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.49945300341785
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.50
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.525
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.5255
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.5307
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.57
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.572
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 51.7595
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 52.15
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 52.208
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 52.3558
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 52.373359099561206
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 52.3787
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 52.4604
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 53.381
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 53.4035
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 53.528
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 53.57727659961554
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 54.0105
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 54.46
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 54.50
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 55.45
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 55.5
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 55.50
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 55.695450
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 55.750
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 55.87222907165985
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 55.9214118
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 56.44
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 58.39226068299784
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 58.4
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 58.5167
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 59.20926
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 59.56
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: 67
>> 1 GlueSiteLatitude: GlueSiteLongitude: GlueSiteWeb:
>> http://rsgrid3.its.uiowa.edu
>> 2 GlueSiteLatitude: 40.8527
>> 2 GlueSiteLatitude: 41.4984
>> 2 GlueSiteLatitude: 43.7161
>> 2 GlueSiteLatitude: 44.4948
>> 2 GlueSiteLatitude: 45.46
>> 2 GlueSiteLatitude: 48.7
>> 2 GlueSiteLatitude: 49.16
>> 2 GlueSiteLatitude: 50
>> 3 GlueSiteLatitude: 41.7827
>> 3 GlueSiteLatitude: 46.12
>> 8 GlueSiteLatitude: 0.0
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