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lostinrates

Snooze wrote: »

:huh:

A 360 degree would be a full circle, obviously, and what would be the point of doing that when you could just carry on as you are already doing?

If you're going along a road and you do a 180 then you've turned round and are going back where you came from, therefore it's physically impossible to have a road turn of more than that amount. Roundabouts are obviously different but even so you still wouldn't go alllllllllll the way round a roundabout to an exit at 300 degrees from where you came from when you could have taken it the first time you went past it. :cool:

Anyone give me a hand to get these worms back in their tin?

R

I'm trying to remember which way round a roundabout I drive...when I've remembered I can explain....
that even worries me a little...

Snooze

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm trying to remember which way round a roundabout I drive...when I've remembered I can explain....
that even worries me a little...

:eek::eek:_pale_ Glad you drive down there, and I drive up here. _pale_

R

lostinrates

Snooze wrote: »

:eek::eek:_pale_ Glad you drive down there, and I drive up here. _pale_

R

yeah...I would be too if I were you
edit: ok, 90 degrees, is dead left turn , 180 straight ahead, 270 is right and 360 is back the way you came, so 300 would be...about half past four.

lostinrates

Just heard from DH who said that taxi home passed bases and cars just halted at odd angles with hazards on....roads really icey. His taxi said that things haven't been easy since about 9:30 tonight.

Snooze

lostinrates wrote: »

yeah...I would be too if I were you
edit: ok, 90 degrees, is dead left turn , 180 straight ahead, 270 is right and 360 is back the way you came, so 300 would be...about half past four.

:rotfl: no!

90 is left, 0 is straight on, 90 is right, and 180 is back the way you came. If you do 300 then - assuming you've turned to the left - you've gone left, then pointed back the way you came, then to the right, and then some more, short of turning in a full circle!

Half past four would be 135 degrees.

Which part of this are you not understanding? :rotfl::rotfl:

R

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I know what Davenaves means....those turns where it goes back on you to the left, I've seen a couple that must be 300 degrees. (out side the country side they'd be mini roundabouts I guess.)

That's about it. If you are heading south on tthe A377 and wish to turn into the B3042, I estimated there's roughly 60 degrees between the two, so very difficult, especially as the B road is on a steep slope.

Snooze is right; the max you could turn without a roundabout would be a handbrake turn, or 180 degrees, so I should have said 180 - 60 = 120 degrees. (obtuse angle = blimmin difficult)

However, I'm letting myself off. I was in a hurry because Victoria Wood was on the telly, so I'm sorry if I left confusion in my wake!:o

ETA: Have just looked at the map, and it is worse than I described, so no exaggeration. See for yourselves:

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=EX18+7EU&countryCode=GB#map=50.88739,-3.87234|16|4&dp=os&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:50.88513:-3.87322:14|Eggesford|Eggesford

treliac

lostinrates wrote: »

I suppose salt is uite hard/expensive to store...I mean, presumably it has to stay dry ?

Yeah .... if it melts it becomes salty water!!

lostinrates

Snooze wrote: »

Which part of this are you not understanding? :rotfl::rotfl:

R

LOL, most of it. I did get it while asleep and that was a relief!

Generali

Snooze wrote: »

:rotfl:

I see you all went to the same maths/geometry school as each other! You can't have a turn more than 179 degrees as you'd just be turned round and going back where you came from!

A 300 degree turn to the left, for example, would actually be a 60 degree turn to the right.

R

Nope. A 180 degree turn would be continuing straight on. The only place I can think of a turn of > 360 degrees is in a multi storey car park exit.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Nope. A 180 degree turn would be continuing straight on. The only place I can think of a turn of > 360 degrees is in a multi storey car park exit.

This was my thoughts yesterday...but i did get it later....because countinuing straight in is NO degree turn, you don't actually turn at all. and what I was thinking of as 300 deree turn is a turn from the non turn 180 line....

I think I confused it further by bringing round about into things...:o