Timeline for What are the minor points on this 32-point compass?
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| Oct 7 at 7:46 | vote | accept | user3490 | ||
| Oct 7 at 7:05 | answer | added | Senex | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 6 at 11:16 | comment | added | user3490 | @Senex I think you've got it - if you post your comment as an answer, I'll accept it. | |
| Oct 6 at 11:16 | comment | added | user3490 | @kimchilover I do, and on closer inspection it does look as though I might have misread it; it was slightly corroded. | |
| Oct 5 at 21:31 | comment | added | kimchi lover | Do you have a photo? Maybe "L" is really "b": the two can look similar, as in alamy.com/… | |
| Oct 4 at 23:03 | comment | added | akhmeteli | @Senex : just speculating, but maybe L stands for "line"? (cf. [rhumb line][1]) [1]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhumb_line | |
| Oct 4 at 4:29 | comment | added | Thomas Perry | Yep, it's a history of science question. | |
| Oct 3 at 17:37 | comment | added | user3490 | @Mauricio I wasn't quite sure which SE site this belonged on, if any, but feel free to migrate it if you can think of a better one. | |
| Oct 2 at 16:16 | comment | added | Mauricio | Not a history of science question... | |
| Oct 2 at 7:31 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 1 at 22:06 | comment | added | Senex | The letter "L" corresponds to the English "by", so that, for example, "SLW" stands for "South by West" and "SWLS" stands for "South West by South", as indicated in the section 32-wind compass rose in the Wikipedia article on the Points of the compass. The minor points "X by Y" are well-known, but I do not know what word in what language is actually abbreviated by "L". | |
| S Oct 1 at 19:12 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Oct 1 at 19:12 | history | asked | user3490 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |