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Re: Deriving the Bygrave equations
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2018 Feb 9, 10:34 -0800
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2018 Feb 9, 10:34 -0800
On 2018-02-06 15:33, Bob Goethe wrote: > I would appreciate somebody walking me through the "why" and "how this works" of Bygrave's equations. I've been waiting for Gary LaPook to say something, but haven't seen a reply from him or anyone else. A number of years ago he posted this material on the Bygrave method: http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Bygrave-slide-rule-LaPook-sep-2008-g6329 Instead of variable names y and Y, my Bygrave variant calls them W and X. Maybe it would have made more sense to name them X and Y so you could solve for X, Y, and Z in that order.
