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Re: Accuracy of sextant observations at sea
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Nov 20, 15:52 -0800
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Nov 20, 15:52 -0800
I am attaching Figure Q6d from Bowditch (1977) which graphically shows the relationship between sigma and percentage of fixes in a circular distribution, the same as in the Extended Table Q7d that I posted previously.
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