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Re: Lunars: how to use the prop.log tables?
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2016 Sep 2, 07:41 -0700
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2016 Sep 2, 07:41 -0700
David,
You wrote
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"...of which one of the terms is a given constant quantity, commonly one hour..." [1913 Webster]didn’t help much.
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and I certainly concur. Moreover on the face it's not clear to me that proportional logarithms based on one hour intervals have much to offer since they would presumably be defined as plog(x) = log(1) - log(x) and log(1) = 0. Could it really be that there were distinct tables of plogs of this type?! Regards, Robin Stuart
