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Re: Smart and Shearme Position Line Tables
From: David C
Date: 2020 May 3, 14:53 -0700
From: David C
Date: 2020 May 3, 14:53 -0700
Lars wrote
Out of the 368 values on the page shown by David, 16% have an error of one unit in the last decimal, but never larger than that. Approximately equally distributed between U and V.
See the attached comments by L J Comrie in Hughes' Tables for Sea and Air Navigation. (1938).
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