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KB Started conversation Sep 17, 2009
What interesting fact connects these things:
- A long line
- A square (in more ways than one)
- A 
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KB Posted Sep 17, 2009
If you tell me something Quite Interesting, I'll consider answering that question. 
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Sep 17, 2009
Spike Milligan, perchance????
GT
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KB Posted Sep 17, 2009
Oh, you'll have to spit it out if you have an answer - it's too early for hints.
But I'm tempted to refer you to my first reply. 
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Sep 17, 2009
Nothing to do with mathematics..........
Nothing to do with 'Julzes' I hope.....
Then again, it could be a POW escape plot???
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KB Posted Sep 17, 2009
All of them relate to grids. There's your answer.
Grids are made up of lines, grids can be squares within squares (squares in more ways than one), and chefs have been known to use grids of wire - called sieves.
Now, am I the only one who has had a bellyful of grids, and of people looking for the right answer or the klaxon before even thinking of anything interesting?
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KB - 0.
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Let's get QI - Quite Interesting - back on track. It has become a self-parody.
(There would have been QI points for anybody who said anything Quite Interesting, though.)
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Sep 17, 2009
Is this ancient Greek???
The Squre therefore would be a geographic square. and the long line the distance from one town to another......
The name Eritosthenes springs to mind....
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Sep 17, 2009
The long line is the equator....
The square is in Alexandria.......
And another square is in Syene, on the Tropic of Cancer...
Eritosthenes calculated the Circumference of the Earth to be one fiftieth of the distance from Syene to Alexandria. If the distance from Syene to Alexandria was one fiftieth of the arc of a circle Eritosthenes said that the circumference of the Earth was 40,000 miles........
This is incredible if you think that all Eritosthenes had was string, legs and thought.....
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toybox Posted Sep 18, 2009
You can fill in a square with a single line:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve
http://eljjdx.canalblog.com/archives/2009/07/04/14274036.html (more entertaining, but in French)
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Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Sep 18, 2009
An hour then a hissy fit?
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Sep 18, 2009
rick stien and his resteraunts
long line...fishing line
.... rick stien
square....one of his restraunts names or locations
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