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Golly, Doug, I didn't think I had ordered Amazon's last copy. Going to A just 
now it looks like there are a couple of copies of the paperback I have for 
$10, and another old-fashioned looking hardback for $100. To find them you 
have to enter most of the title, Short, easy . . . Just entering Martelli in 
the search box doesn't cut it.

I'll be interested to hear the physical details of yours when it arrives - 
from India! What a world we live in!

Merry Christmas,

Hewitt

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On Dec 23, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Dwmacpherson2000  wrote:

> I ordered a copy from India by way of ABE books online. I will let you know how it turns out. 
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> Doug 
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Dec 22, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Hewitt  wrote:
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>> I ordered this book from Amazon and it came yesterday. Full title is 
"Short, easy, and improved method of finding the apparent time at the ship."
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>> It's a trade paperback, and I have to say Hewlet-Packard made a nice job of 
it. The signatures are stitched, so they shouldn't come loose. The only 
shortcoming with my copy is the print on page 42 and pages 44 thru 47 of 
Table V is light (but still quite legible).
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>> The tables are I thru VI and the method takes them in that order. What you 
end up with is LHA expressed in time units, so you have to convert to the 
angular units we are used to- 1 hour = 15*, 4 mins = 1* ...
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>> After working through his English example (the same data is used for 
directions in French, German, Italian and Spanish), I ran the example through 
my HP 35s using the sine/cosine formula and it gave an answer 1.0' less than 
Martelli.
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>> Then I tried M's table with Greg's 12-17 time sight and again the difference was 1.0'. 
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>> My 1972 Bowditch noted that Martelli's method was still popular. Having 
been an active navigator then having tried it now, I can see why. There are 6 
tables, but they are short and logical. In neither of the cases I tried did I 
have to do an interpolation.
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>> My one cavil is to wish M had set out the formulas he used. I have the same 
gripe about the Concise SR table in the NA. 
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>> Net of everything, though, Martelli's book is an agreeable stocking stuffer for myself.
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>> Hewitt
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>> Sent from my iPad
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