17th May 2005, 08:37 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 1970
Location: Sydney
Posts: 402
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by OzPunter
Can I ask what it was you measured with your tape? Was it the markings on the rails near the finish line, or a horse, or a photo of the finish like those in your links above?
The humans allocating the results use the rail markings as a guide I'm sure, but as La Mer correctly points out, they don't always get it right
|
Fed up with trying to find a proper definition for length I trespassed onto a racetrack and measured the markings on the finish line rails.
Ken Callender once waffled on about how meticulous the false rail track re-measurement is, so I figure that it's relatively easy to get the length markings right.
Given that the metric system is relatively recent, maybe that marking was really 10 feet instead of 3 metres (which is only 9.84 feet). |