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Hey, thanks guys. I'll check it out right away - and probably be back
for coaching in s/s use.

Hewitt

On 1/12/09, FJones  wrote:
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>  IMHO the spreadsheet is one of the most powerful (and commonly available)
>  tools that a scientist, engineer, navigator, etc., has.  Even the earliest
>  software met instant success with a very wide user base.  I fondly recall using
>  the early software releases (Visicalc and Lotus 123, for example)!  There was
>  simply nothing to compare spreadsheet techniques with and the possibilites
>  seemed endless.
>
>  Frank J.
>  Rochester, NY
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>  Subject:                [NavList 7001] Re: Constructing A Logarithm Table
>  Date sent:              Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:27:44 -0800
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>  > Hewitt, you wrote:
>  > "(In high school we use to call them 'slime' and 'co-slime')."
>  >
>  > LOL. I had the happy advantage of learning celestial navigation, and some 
of the associated trig, a year before studying the subject in school, so the 
"slimeys" were old friends to me.
>  >
>  > And:
>  > "Anyway, I've never had occasion to grapple with a spread-sheet."
>  >
>  > Oh, what a shame! They're great fun for this sort of thing. I write quite 
a lot of stand-alone software, but when I want to work out celestial 
navigation calculations, I almost always start with a spreadsheet. If you 
need a table of haversines for every tenth of a degree, you can assemble one 
in about... hmmm... I'll time myself... OK. Done. It took me five minutes and 
that included some time making a nice graph (I got distracted). Do you know 
if you have a spreadsheet program pre-installed on your computer? Are you on 
Windows? Mac?
>  >
>  > And you wrote:
>  > "Come to think of it, there's a nice little book that has the S/CoS
>  > formulas for direct solution of the undivided triangle for Hc and Z -
>  > backup is the NAO reduction table with a more lucid explanation.  Also
>  > has a long-term almanac of Aries and Sun; pub. by Starpath School of
>  > Navigation."
>  >
>  > Yes, there are quite a few nice books out there that spell it all out. 
Some even have *your* name on the cover. :-)
>  >
>  > -FER
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