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Re: Abhav vs S-Tables
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2016 Sep 21, 13:37 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2016 Sep 21, 13:37 -0700
On 2016-09-20 20:28, Robert VanderPol II wrote: > Pepperday is pretty much the same as Bayless first edition with columns renamed so you did the statistics for it whether you knew it or not. Doesn't the S-Table use a different multiplier for the log sine and log cosine? I last saw the table when it was in the Almanac, but my recollection is that its values were different from Ageton / Bayless. That, plus any difference in the point where tabular precision increases from whole numbers to tenths, could affect accuracy for better or worse.
