On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:49:19 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Martin wrote:
"HeyBub" wrote in message
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john westmore wrote:
We wish to straighten and 'position correctly' the garden fence that
we share with a neighbour in an adjoining terraced house.

What is the best way to get the fence at exactly right angles to our
houses? The garden is about twenty metres long. Thanks for advice.

As others have suggested, use the 3,4,5 rule (it's what the builders
of the pyramids in Egypt did).

Weird.... I thought the pyramids pre-date Pythagoras by 1 or 2
millennia?

Uh, they did. But right angles pre-dated the pyramids by at least several
decades.

Absolutely. It was also known to and proven by American Indians (long
before it was called America). There was a great chief Anohamey
among the Chippewa who had three daughters, all of whome were married.

It was their custom to sit at night around the campfire, and always
Running Lilly would sit with her one boy on a deer skin, Twinkling
Star woulld sit with her two boys on a buffalo skin, and Laughing
Rabbit would sit with her 3 young bucks on a hippotamus skin.

From this they knew that the sons of the squaw on the hippotamus are
equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides.


The circle is even older.