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Re: Z tangent formula
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Jul 7, 20:04 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Jul 7, 20:04 +1000
________________________________________ From: John Simmonds > Actually, I would suggest that the Sharp nav calculator uses the same > formula, truncated to 1 decimal place :) Which same formula? I would expect that any shortened values would result from rounding: ie, the closest value being adopted. This does not seem to be happening for 2 of the 3 samples.