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Re: Haversines with Logarithms
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2020 Oct 11, 09:03 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2020 Oct 11, 09:03 -0700
Lars Bergman, you wrote:
"The base of the logarithms seems to be 0.838019111"
Right. Maybe you (or anyone) could talk about the downside of using a unique logarithm base like this...
And:
"I have not figured out why this base-value was chosen, anyway it is not Matthew's current phone number."
Ha ha ha. One must explore all hypotheses. :)
Frank Reed
