... Not that it matters, but I don't know where the 25th SE P2K comes from. Is there a mountain nobody else knows about? :-) At first I thought you were...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 4, 2005 6:39 am
Hello from Adam H, A gathering of prominence-minded peakbaggers took placed this weekend near Bakersfield in southern California. With several people looking...
Some more computer draft prominence lists, including all the Asian and South American ultras, have been uploaded here: ...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 4, 2005 4:27 pm
Hello Jonathan, Your web page is a GREAT introduction to the prominence concept for the general reader. However I wish that you would call the metric...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 4, 2005 7:44 pm
Hello from Adam, I have in my possession all black/white edition copies ordered, and have mailed those copies to people who specified an actual street address....
Prominence folks---after being prompted a few weeks back to look more thoroughly at the East, I decided to do a thorough Top 50 workup on the (far) Northeast...
(Jonathan) ... The Europe list to 150 meters, with 24909 peaks listed, takes the worlds record for longest peak list AFAIK. The hikers have their work cut out...
Adam Helman wrote: Your web page is a GREAT introduction to the prominence concept for the general reader. However I wish that you would call the metric...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 5, 2005 5:31 pm
Hello Jonathan, I disagree with your statement that the term "prominence" is not well known "outside our group". Consider the Earth sciences in the following...
[Adam:] Consider the Earth sciences in the following demonstration. Try the following - go the Google.com and do a search using "geology" + "topographic...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 5, 2005 10:24 pm
You are correct, David M. "Topographic prominence" does NOT enjoy the peculiarly precise definition employed in this forum. So my example was indeed...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 5, 2005 11:53 pm
Hello prominence folks, I've adapted Mark Adrian's photographs (thank you Mark!!) to my trip report for this last weekend - ...
That European list is amazing. Now I just need to work out how to paste it into Excel..... I'm not sure what the last two numerical columns mean: for the top ...
... Not a lot, and some of these summits with meaningless "saddles" also had wrong summit coordinates. I thank Eberhard for drawing this to my attention. The...
I have begun to compile and maintain a minimal FRL for the most prominent point in each county. Right now I'm only tracking the very basic categories, mainly ...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 7, 2005 5:51 am
Hi Edward, I'll need to construct a place at cohp.org for your new county prominence FRL to grow and prosper. Frankly, I don't think Summitpost would be so...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 7, 2005 8:04 am
Hello Edward, Just got up in the middle of the night realizing that I mistook your CA county prominence counts for the CA Fifty Finest prominence counts. ...
Edward, Can I help in developing a list for Oregon. I have completed all the P2k's in Oregon and all the CoHP's. I am working on the Oregon 100, but I would...
... I can at least start working on it; the time-consuming part is not the computer scan, but the identification of all of the peaks. So maybe I'll just...
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Mark Adrian
markadrian@...
Oct 7, 2005 6:43 pm
Hmm, here's a way to order those lists. Some of you may recall the traveling salesman's quagmire. That is, the shortest path connecting all the citys (or prom...
... Hmm, here's a way to order those lists. ... Well, you would find it challenging, since the traveling salesman problem is NP-complete. This means that the...
Hi Mark, A while back I tried to get the ball rolling on this discussion - which was useful because it resulted in the re-adoption of the term "ultra' which is...
... Scotland.... The term Marilyn is unpopular with some here as well, but has now taken a meaning beyond a play on words. It has entered our language. The ...
[Ryan:] "Well, you would find it challenging, since the traveling salesman problem is NP-complete. This means that the amount of time to compute the best...
Has anyone ever computed the TSP for a set of polygons as opposed to a set of points? I have often wondered how one would compute the minimum number of...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 7, 2005 10:31 pm
(Regarding the implementation of a search algorithm in Winprom): Again the situation is actually a bit better: fast algorithms exist to get a solution that has...
Dennis Poulin definitely needs that map so I applaud any of your efforts in getting the job done. In case you might be intested, I put up a summitpost page on...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 8, 2005 12:08 am
Actually, Dean, I thought this is a grand opportunity for you to learn Winprom. ;-) We can make this a task for the fall season - somebody will likely realize...
