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Stadia mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The ancient Persian parasang was 3.25 to 3.3 miles, 30 Greek stadia. Any great accuracy in the size of old units is illusory unless a critical study is made. The standards have, of course, disappeared, and their magnitude can be determined only by remeasuring a distance in modern terms.
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If the distance of the stadia rod from the instrument axis is D, then the object distance is D - c. The corresponding image distance d behind the other principal plane is then given by 1/d + 1/(D - c) = 1/f.
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The base perimeter length of the Great Pyramid, half a nautical mile, is the equivalent of five ancient greek stadia of 600 olympic feet each, obviously not a quirk of whimsical fate, as the greek system is clearly sexagesimal like the chaldean, and earth commensurate, like the cubit unit of length,
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stadia rod (also "surveyor's staff'): a long brightly painted rod, accurately calibrated in metric units (or feet and inches), used for obtaining elevations and stadia measurements of distance in mapping with a major surveying instrument. ... ; Search WWW Search webref.org ... What Topic Is Your Essay or Term Paper On?
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a long brightly painted rod, accurately calibrated in metric units (or feet and inches), used for obtaining elevations and stadia measurements of distance in mapping with a major surveying instrument. ... ; Search WWW Search webref.org ... What Topic Is Your Archaeology Paper On?
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