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Sextant accuracy

From: Alexandre Eremenko (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 13 2005 - 17:59:22 EST

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    Interesting observation
    (from the same Russian book I frequently cited recently):

    "Research shows that about 1/2 of all position lines
    computed by the mates of commercial vessels have
    substantially larger computational errors,
    than the errors of measurement".

    A


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