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So THAT means (following David's logic) that a 50 mile ride by 
definition must be OVER fifty miles,...because, as a practical matter, 
it must be measured with a certain limit on the level of accuracy.  
Hence you must always be over and round down to 50 miles, to insure 
that it is AT LEAST fifty miles.

Using a standard GPS, I think the level of accuracy is usually around 
24 feet.  So that would mean that a 50 mile ride would have to be 
measured as AT LEAST 50 miles plus 25 ft to guarantee that it was an 
official fifty mile ride.

-Paul
On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 07:17  AM, <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > That is an interesting point. The quantization for distance for an
> > endurance rides is defined in the rules to be 5 miles. Therefore one
> > could eaisly argue and technically be correct that anything from
> > 47.50000000000001 to 52.499999999999999999 is in fact a 50 mile ride.
> >
> > I expect that is not what the people that wrote the rule meant but 
> > that
> > is what it means.
>
> No time to go dig through and find the exact verbiage this morning, 
> but am
> pretty sure that as Barbara stated, the rules specifically address the
> rounding issue and state that a 50 must still be at least 50, and that
> rounding only applies to the increments over 50, so that they are
> sanctioned to the nearest 5 miles.  In any event, taken all together, 
> that
> is the gist of it.
>
> Heidi
>
>
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