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Re: Symmedian point -earliest reference in navigation
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2018 Oct 13, 19:42 -0700
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2018 Oct 13, 19:42 -0700
Yvon Villarceau, Nouvelle Navigation, Paris, 1877, pp. 37-40.
Herbert Prinz
Bill Lionheart had asked for
... the right attribution for the observation that the
the least squares point, hence the most probable position, can be
located using a geometrical construction, rather than just matrix
algebra.
