Sort of related: I gave a talk about calculating the distance between all the railway stations in Britain in the 1950s using an early computer: http://blog.jgc.

Sort of related: I gave a talk about calculating the distance between all the railway stations in Britain in the 1950s using an early computer: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/10/the-great-railway-caper-big-data-in-1955.html http://blog.jgc.org/2012/10/the-great-railway-caper-big-data...