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The nameless person who got the huge error was handicapped by early-morning calibration course inattention. He probably used nine of the squares as a calibration course, instead of eight.

His corrected estimate of course length (assuming equal spacing of the square tiles, but disregarding the diagonal of a single tile) would be about 360.225 meters, a pretty good estimate.

Assuming each square was 2 feet on a side, I get an estimate of the wrong cal course as 28.02 m, and the corrected estimate at 358.84 m. Even better.

I understand that the measured length of the calibration course was 2 cm off from the stated 25 meters. One can only wonder at the amazing coincidence of the pacing course being taped at exactly 354 meters.
Last edited by peteriegel
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