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Re: Z tangent formula

From: Peter Fogg (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 06:04:46 EDT

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    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.


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