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Re: On slide rules
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2023 Feb 7, 04:18 -0800
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2023 Feb 7, 04:18 -0800
Also see:
http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/virtual-slide-rule.html
http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/
And a specially designed sliderule for celestial navigation:
https://friendsofthevigilance.org.uk/Astron/SlideRules/TraditionalBygrave/TraditionalBygrave.html
And, if you are doing the celestial computations on a cammon sliderule it method.
glis much more accurate to use the Bygrave methodology than the more common cosine-rule
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