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Re: Lutz 252 Slide Rule for Navigation
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2017 Aug 20, 17:17 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2017 Aug 20, 17:17 -0700
Using tangents rather than cotangents seems to work better when performing Bygrave sight reduction with the slide rule or trig calculator. See attached formula index card and filled in example.
Greg Rudzinski