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Re: Instumental error?
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Apr 20, 20:49 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Apr 20, 20:49 -0500
Fred, On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Fred Hebard wrote: > It's just that when you get down to around 0.2' of arc, > the difference > between 0.24' and 0.16' might be informative. Agree. But in my case the purpopse was to detect the systematic error in principle. If the average error of 7 measurements is 0.4-0.6, and SD is about 0.2, the bias is evident, and the next digit does not give much info. Alex.