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Re: Comments on the units
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2006 Apr 7, 14:55 -0600
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2006 Apr 7, 14:55 -0600
Alex Eremenko wrote: > Interesting! > So the American artillerists sacrifice the ease of calculation > to higher precision. Alex, you seriously underestimate the mental calculational abilities of American artillerists! Someone already mentioned the John Wayne movie where he takes a sighting of the sun, looks at the sextant scale, and promptly announces the latitude and longitude of the fix. The artillerists could naturally perform similar feats of mental arithmetic! ;-) Ken Muldrew.