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Re: Longitude sight, South Pacific, 1864
From: Charles McElhill
Date: 2018 May 16, 16:24 -0700

I have a question regarding the use of logarithms. What was the advantage for 19th century navigation?

You see this a lot in old navigation text. Was it just to simplify interpolation ? Thanks

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