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Re: Smart and Shearme Position Line Tables
From: David C
Date: 2020 May 3, 14:38 -0700
From: David C
Date: 2020 May 3, 14:38 -0700
Robin wrote
In an effort to chase away some of the mental cobwebs from the lockdown I tried to work out what these tables were actually doing. In case anyone is interested here's what I came up with,
Thanks. I had guessed that Smart and Shearme had manipulated the sin formula but did not know how they did it. Many decades ago I enjoyed manipulating trig and integral calcul;us expressions but that ability has long gone. To be honest I do not understand what you have done (-;
I will add a link to this message on the worksheet.