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Colorado is a rectangle with 697 sides!

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by ETC(SS), Apr 23, 2023.

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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    ....technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon according to the linked article

    Because: Cartography? Surveying?

    Even though the borders of Colorado were supposed to be a geospherical rectangle, stretching from 37°N to 41°N latitude, and from 25°W to 32°W longitude, there's a fairly big difference between delimitation and demarcation.
    ...and they didn't have differential GPS in 1876.....

    Colorado Is Not a Rectangle—It Has 697 Sides - Atlas Obscura
     
    #1 ETC(SS), Apr 23, 2023
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