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Re: Timing Lunars with a Rock

From: Herbert Prinz (no email)
Date: Wed Jul 20 2005 - 13:03:54 EDT

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    Frank Reed wrote (in reply to a suggestion by Alexandre Eremenko)

    >"I suppose a sandglass has at least the same precision
    >as a crude pendulum discussed above."
    >
    >Much easier to make a pendulum from scratch!
    >
    >
    A sandglass may have the same precision, but it does not have the same
    resolution as a pendulum. It's no substitute.

    Herbert Prinz


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