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Re: Haversines with Logarithms
From: Lars Bergman
Date: 2020 Oct 11, 07:40 -0700
From: Lars Bergman
Date: 2020 Oct 11, 07:40 -0700
The base of the logarithms seems to be 0.838019111, and if you add a constant of 1 unit to the ninth decimal of the log you will get a slightly better fit to the tabulated values. I have not figured out why this base-value was chosen, anyway it is not Matthew's current phone number.
Lars
