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Henry H, you quoted Mixter as follows:
"Prices of new micrometer sextants available in New York in 1940 are from
$150 to $250."
The usual inflation calculators give a factor of about 10 to 13 for the
interval from 1940 to 2005 so that's $1500 to $3250 in today's money. Pricey!
Does your edition of Mixter have the footnote saying that in 1943, there are
almost no sextants available in New York at any price? When I finish my time
machine, I'm gonna take a dozen GPS receivers back to the year 1943. I just
hope I can fit the satellites in it, too. <g>
By the way, it never fails to amaze me which posts (of my own) generate
replies and get conversations rolling and which ones just sit there. You never
can tell, and you surely shouldn't take it personally.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
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