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Re: G F Martelli versus G Pouvreau
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2016 Mar 13, 13:39 +0000
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2016 Mar 13, 13:39 +0000
Paul, you wrote: > official french maritime education and training (in the navy as well as in the merchant service) have always favored the use of pure log tables (five or six-figure) to solve the formulae > of spherical trigonometry. Perhaps logs of sines, not pure logs? (IT is hard to believe that they used separate tables for sines and for logs). Alex.
