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Re: Sextant certificates
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2006 Feb 2, 22:50 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2006 Feb 2, 22:50 -0500
Right Bruce. What I was trying to ascertain was whether the 20" limit of the German Hydrological Office was for corrections ranging from +10" to -10" or for corrections ranging from +20" to -20". In the first case, the total span of corrections is 20", while it is 40" in the second case. Fred On Feb 2, 2006, at 9:07 PM, Bruce Stark wrote: > The certificate for my Mate says: "The following corrections should > be applied." > > The point is, it gives corrections, not errors. You don't have to > reverse the +/- sign to apply them. Is this standard? > > Bruce
