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Re: Luni-Solar Distance
From: Douglas Denny
Date: 2010 Oct 18, 15:42 -0700
From: Douglas Denny
Date: 2010 Oct 18, 15:42 -0700
George said:
"You can see that the iteration is
converging, but painfully slowly, improving by approximately a factor of
two at each step".
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I should have said: does it _always_ converge? and how quickly?
I might add: can the iteration convergence be improved with a correction factor as with the second method in Meeus's Kepler iteration method?
Douglas Denny.
Chichester. England.
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