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Question

Different ones of these reference frames use different reference ellipsoids for the earth’s shape, so local ones remain more accurate than the WGS 84 geodetic standard used in GPS. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these references that are used as standards in order to describe other points on the earth, which can be “horizontal” or “vertical” depending on use for marking surface position or elevation.

ANSWER: datums [or datum references; accept any specific type of datum; reject “data”] (The plural of “datum” is “datums” explicitly to avoid confusion with “data.”)

[10e] Vertical datums are often set to a particular location’s value for this standard. Altitude and elevation are typically reported in distance above or below this standard.

ANSWER: mean sea level

[10h] On nautical charts, the chart datum is typically based not on mean sea level but on this tidal datum, which averages the elevation of the lowest tide each day.

ANSWER: mean lower-low water [or MLLW; reject “mean low water” or “MLW”]

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Summary


2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Banned from ARGOS	\|madam\|	0	10	10
Pahkin' the Ahgo	Hu up Jinning they Tao	0	10	10
Import Pandas	"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	0	10	10
BHSU Rebirth	Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	0	10	10
Clown Squad	hawk two of	0	10	10
BHSU ReFantazio	Music to Help You Stop Smoking	0	10	10
Clown Senpais	Northeast by Northwestern	10	10	20
Notre Dame	That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	0	10	10
WashU	The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	0	10	10
Limp Franceskit	Cambridge	0	10	10
Cien Años de Quizboledad	Simple Vibes	10	10	20
Defying Suavity	Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	0	10	10
Cope is the thing with feathers	Walston et. al.	0	10	10
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	12 Litres of Green Tea	0	10	10
NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	just one more half-dot bro	10	10	20
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	0	10	10
The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	0	10	10
Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	0	10	10
She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	0	10	10
as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	0	10	10
Stanford+	Cry of the Common Loon	0	10	10
A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	0	10	10
number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	Berkeley	0	10	10
I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	throw away your cards, rally in the streets	0	10	10
CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	Thompson et al.	0	10	10
UBC	Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	0	10	10