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Re: Freiberger Trommelsextant errors
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Apr 18, 18:00 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Apr 18, 18:00 -0400
Geoffrey, > Was this machinery "high quality" when it was > originally installed back in the 1930s, Probably in 1940-s or even 50-s. They did not produce sextants before and during the war. Also the conjecture about machinery would imply deterioration of quality as time goes, and I am not sure that this really happens. Probably it is just some decisions about the "treshold", maximal allowable errors, as I tried to guess in my previous message. Alex.
