Tuesday 8 July 2014

Myriad

So NT18 is a hectad and NT is a myriad, because a myriad in Greek is 10,000 and a myriad in Ordnance Survey speak is 10,000 square kilometres (monads) - a square of 100km per side.

Who knew?
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