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Subject: Re: [Nml] DR
From: Mike Wescott (mike.wescott@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Feb 23 1999 - 13:05:05 EST
Dan Hogan writes:
> My fault. We agreed during the legs from Maldives to Sydney to call DR=
> no current and EP=current. Will change my terminology. I'm having a
> hard time with this since in all my sailing all I used the term DR for
> everything.
This is always the difficulty in trying to set realistic problems for
others to solve: terminology. When you are doing it "for real", you
know what "it" is that you want to know even if you don't know the
name for "it". Dan & co. have done a great job in setting problems
based on their own exprience. The rest of us, as armchair sailors,
need to think a little more clearly about the problem to be solved
(and what definition *really* applies) and to document our assumptions
and methods and calculations in our answers. It's a bit more work,
but a lot more instructive for everyone involved.
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