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Re: Still on LOP's


Subject: Re: Still on LOP's
From: Dan Allen (danallen46@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 00:32:37 EDT


This has been quite a thread -- over 121 messages on LOPs!

Dan

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX]On Behalf Of Rodney
Myrvaagnes
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 7:25 PM
To: NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX
Subject: Re: Still on LOP's

I am stunned by this fine message. I can't find anything to disagree
with. Apologies to all who expected something ill-tempered from me. :-)

On Sun, 5 May 2002 11:25:58 +0100, George Huxtable wrote:

> That would make Peter Fogg happy, but the
>price to pay is that every cocked hat is correspondingly larger. Of course,
>that doesn't conflict with my 1 on 4 contention, because the explicit
>assumption there is that clockwise and anticlockwise errors must be equal
>in number: not true when there's a systematic compass error.
>

Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a

"Curse thee, thou quadrant. No longer will I guide my earthly way by thee." Capt. Ahab





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