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Re: Dr
From: Mike Wescott
Date: 1999 Feb 24, 11:49 EST
From: Mike Wescott
Date: 1999 Feb 24, 11:49 EST
Millard Kirk said: > The DR comment was not meant in any way to flame Dan Hogan or any one > else that prepare the Silicon Sea problems. And it was not taken as such by me nor, I hope, by anyone else. > I agree with Mike Wescott - mike.wescott@XXX.XXX doing > the work on a boat for yourself you know what you want. Now it may > be a different situation if the Captain ask you to compute a plan a > leg, do a DR, plot a course etc. The navigator would may have to > defend his work and explain with definition of terms. And I was using your message as a jumping off point to argue that showing the work (and the assumptions) is a lot more instuctive for all of us than just seeing the answers. Of course, that's easy for me to say, seeing how I haven't done #47 yet. :-( <PRE> -- -Mike Wescott mike.wescott@XXX.XXX =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= =-= TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send this message to majordomo@XXX.XXX: =-= =-= navigation =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= </PRE>