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Re: Today's octant sights
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2010 Mar 18, 22:08 -0000
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2010 Mar 18, 22:08 -0000
Antoine wrote- "Frank, you certainly must be a GOOD instructor, because I really and definitely enjoyed reading your last post on the very clever way(s) to reduce the size of an ellipse ! I knew about the "paper and clipper" method, but I now know the "n^3/2" method." =================== And he might have included this novel method- "And that's the 95% certainty ellipse. The 1 s.d. ellipse is half that size." George. contact George Huxtable, at george@hux.me.uk or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222) or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.