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How to determine distances by mental sequential deposition of a known segment?

You see a power line support and, not reaching it, a column. Get on target with him. Estimate the distance from yourself to the column.

Let's say it is equal to 100 m. Mentally transfer this length to the area between the column and the support, given that the distance seems to be the smaller, the further it is from the observer.

In this case, the first segment turned out to be equal to the second. Thus, the distance from you to the support is 200 m.

Errors can be very gross when the situation changes abruptly, for example, when moving from a clearing overgrown with bushes to arable land, at night in moonlight on city streets, when determining the distance to an object whose base is obscured by some kind of hill (hill, house, etc.) .

Author: A.E. Menchukov

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