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Re: Role of CN
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 13, 21:42 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 13, 21:42 -0500
Bill, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Bill wrote: > Given: There are thousands of new sextants being sold every year. How do you know? Is there a reliable statistics? I remember something about this was discussed once in this list (before I joined) but do not remember the conclusions. So how many sextants are sold every year? Or how many copies of the Nav Almanac? (this could be easier to find out, but I suppose there also equivalents in other languages: Russian and French, maybe Japanese (?)). (Good mathematician I am or bad but I gave up in my attempts to understand how the search engine in this list works:-) > Think you are in good company. That's what I am thinking now:-) Alex.