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Reply to "Decimal accuracy of course form"

Your 1000ft cal course is 304.8 meters long. There is no need to measure another cal course. Is 300 really that much easier to type into your calculator or spreadsheet than 304.8?

For several years I have made my calibration courses by picking the endpoints and then measuring the distance between them. Examples of endpoints might be the south edge of a sewer drain or the first road expansion joint south of the driveway of a house address. Using endpoints like that make them easy to identify if the nails disappear. And around here pretty much all nails disappear every winter due to snowplows. An arbitrary distance for a cal course, as long as it is greater than 300m, is fine. And I would argue that it's better than an arbitrary endpoint.

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