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Re: [Nml] DR


Subject: Re: [Nml] DR
From: Mike Wescott (mike.wescott@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Feb 24 1999 - 11:49:49 EST


Millard Kirk said:

> The DR comment was not meant in any way to flame Dan Hogan or any one
> else that prepare the Silicon Sea problems.

And it was not taken as such by me nor, I hope, by anyone else.

> I agree with Mike Wescott - mike.wescott@XXX.XXX doing
> the work on a boat for yourself you know what you want. Now it may
> be a different situation if the Captain ask you to compute a plan a
> leg, do a DR, plot a course etc. The navigator would may have to
> defend his work and explain with definition of terms.

And I was using your message as a jumping off point to argue that
showing the work (and the assumptions) is a lot more instuctive for
all of us than just seeing the answers. Of course, that's easy for me
to say, seeing how I haven't done #47 yet. :-(

-- 
	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott@XXX.XXX

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