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Bowditch: Table 15
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2015 Mar 9, 17:56 -0700
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2015 Mar 9, 17:56 -0700
I came across an equation in the 2002 edition of Bowditch that cries out as being wrong (see attachment). The square root should be applied to the sum of the first 2 terms on the right hand side not just the first in isolation.
These sorts of things crop up from time to time, see also g21292,
Robin Stuart