Hard disagree on the irrelevance of numbers, I think they are the most important part
You don’t need to climb the mountain, but how much will you know about its slope and peak? (This last part sound way worse than when I thought about it XD )
You don’t, though; you can do it with math. Trigonometry is pretty useful in orienteering.
A quick and dirty method is to have something with a known height next to it and step back until the known object is the relative size of one thumb section, then count the number of thumb sections tall the unknown object is.
My point is that the exact numbers are irrelevant.
In 1960, minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the cost of the average home was $11,000.00
A high school graduate could leave home at age 18 and be self supporting from Day One.
To paraphrase the book Dune, you don’t need to climb top the top of a mountain to know it’s a mountain.
Hard disagree on the irrelevance of numbers, I think they are the most important part
You don’t need to climb the mountain, but how much will you know about its slope and peak? (This last part sound way worse than when I thought about it XD )
You do need to climb a mountain to know how tall it is.
If you haven’t, don’t tell people it’s 49.3 meters.
You don’t, though; you can do it with math. Trigonometry is pretty useful in orienteering.
A quick and dirty method is to have something with a known height next to it and step back until the known object is the relative size of one thumb section, then count the number of thumb sections tall the unknown object is.
And that’s great if you can document and explain how you got those numbers. That’s the point. You can’t just say it, you have to show your work.