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Re: Have you seen these pictures? Bridge of 5.15 m length....
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Sat, 8 Dec 2001 08:58:21 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > > In lugnet.trains, John Gerlach writes:
> > > >
> > > > So the single span itself isn't quite 5.15 m, it's "only" 4 m - still a VERY
> > > > impressive piece of LEGO engineering!!
> > >
> > > It is in fact 5.15, wich can be recognised if you count the monorail track
> > > pieces: there are 20 sections of monorail: each is 32 studs long. Makes 640
> > > studs total length which is 5.12 meters.
> >
> > Well, just being picky, but it looks to me like there's only about 19 monorail
> > sections *between* the footings, but whats 32 studs between friends? 8?)
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> You are right: there are "only" 19 full sections on the bridge, but of course
> there are two times 50% of a section too
To the *centre* of the footings, yes. But not *between* the footings. I'm
not actually sure where the span of various bridges is measured, but I
thought in such a bridge it would be the distance between nearest
extremities of the footings. Anyone know?
> (easily to see on the left and since
> the bridge is symmetric it has to be on the right too).
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=87382
> Makes 20 in total and still 640 studs...
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> studs-counting-Ben
Nit-picky-ROSCO
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