- 1. [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "john niolon" <jniolon@bham.rr.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:46:42 -0500
- if you want to do a little cipherin' ( to qoute Buffett "I HATE MATH!!!) you can do it like the old time surveyors (before emd). Measure from your gun rest to a point at the top of the slope going d
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00180.html (9,021 bytes)
- 2. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: eric@megageek.com
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:59:37 -0400
- John replies with excellent math calcs for finding the distance. Thanks John, I don't hate math, and I understand how to do that, but wouldn't it be easier to just pull a string the distance and meas
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00181.html (6,981 bytes)
- 3. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "John T. Blair" <jblair1948@cox.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:17:31 -0400
- WOW!!! I haven't seen a logrithem table since high school. I graduated in 67. Plus they are big. It's a lot easier to spend $10 for a scientific calculator, or take the numbers back to you computer (
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00190.html (8,293 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:26:44 -0700
- That's where you look up Cyclic Redundancy Checks, right ? <G> Randall _______________________________________________ Shop-talk mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/shop-talk
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00193.html (7,411 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "Gordon Wishon" <gwishon@nd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:37:47 -0400
- Find a golfer friend who owns a laser range-finder, and borrow it for a day! The one I own (Bushnell Pinseeker) can easily measure targets from 5-1,500 yards with excellent accuracy. Now if it could
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00196.html (9,034 bytes)
- 6. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "Chadwick E. Labno" <chad@linuxeg.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:47:20 -0400
- Why not go for a CheyTac "Intervention" system................ Well, maybe not. chad _______________________________________________ Shop-talk mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/shop
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00197.html (7,703 bytes)
- 7. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "Galt, Stuart A" <stuart.a.galt@boeing.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:48:06 -0700
- Hmm, the CRC book has all sorts of useful information. I suspect that most of the people here at work have never seen it either. They would just "google" the answer. I had to explain what a slide rul
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00198.html (8,559 bytes)
- 8. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:03:41 -0700
- If you could stretch a string and measure it, why not get a cheap Horrible Freight 100 yard/meter fiberglass tape measure? I have one; low tech but it works fine. Sorry about it's not being a range f
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00202.html (8,823 bytes)
- 9. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:33:32 -0700
- I had forgotten about the CRC Handbook. When I was working in the nuclear industry in the early '80s (pre Google) I was on the lookout for a good used one but could never find one I could afford, or
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00216.html (9,783 bytes)
- 10. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:42:14 -0400
- Amazon will sell you a brand new copy for $41.46. http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Mathematical-Tables-Formulae-31st/dp/1584882913/ref=ed_oe_h/104-8065264-4004724 -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com _
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00217.html (8,115 bytes)
- 11. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:19:25 -0700 (PDT)
- Actually, the Chemistry and Physics one is a lot more http://www.amazon.com/CRC-Handbook-Chemistry-Physics-86th/dp/0849304865/ref=pd_sim_b_5_img/102-5050705-2112108 Doug http://www.amazon.com/Standar
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00218.html (8,557 bytes)
- 12. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:38:48 -0700 (PDT)
- BTW, here is another pre-internet math/engineering classic I would buy in an instant if the price were right: http://www.wps.com/projects/million/index.html Doug _____________________________________
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00221.html (8,121 bytes)
- 13. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:46:07 -0400
- It's in print. (Well it's a trade paperback reprint, but it's only $30.) -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Shop-talk mailing list http://autox.team.
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00223.html (7,799 bytes)
- 14. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:47:39 -0700
- Yeah, that's the one. You can get a used copy of the 86th edition for around $35, the 87th will set you back around $55, and the current edition, 88th, is around $100 used and new $140. The 86th (or
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00225.html (9,418 bytes)
- 15. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "Galt, Stuart A" <stuart.a.galt@boeing.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:49:27 -0700
- I remember a copy of that book in my house as I was growing up :) My dad would use it to drill me on my math tables. He said once I had my math tables down cold (so the answer came with zero hesitati
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00228.html (9,237 bytes)
- 16. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "Nolan" <foxtrapper@aceweb.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:39:06 -0400
- Once upon a time, way back before Windows, I wrote a silly little Basic program that was a worm crawling around on the computer screen. It used random number generators to locate the worm, and to con
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00229.html (9,135 bytes)
- 17. Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:11:21 -0700
- Which is why they are properly called pseudo-random numbers ! However, it's easy to avoid having the pattern look the same. Just pick up something that changes each time, like system time in millise
- /html/shop-talk/2007-10/msg00232.html (7,426 bytes)
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