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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!adcmail!briang
- From: briang@atlastele.com (Brian Godfrey)
- Subject: Re: Celestial vs. GPS (was Re: Bermuda Trip - 7/'93)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.222314.15715@atlastele.com>
- Organization: Atlas Telecom Inc.
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:23:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.161850.29276@cs.brown.edu> jfh@cs.brown.edu (John F. Hughes) writes:
- >In article <1go434INNcsp@calvin.NYU.EDU> roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
- >>briang@atlastele.com (Brian Godfrey) writes:
- >>
- >> [how to hack up a sextant-like device]
- >> [how to hack up HO249 ...]
- >>
- >>the ocean) work out sine and cosine tables (you do remember the formulas,
- >>don't you? I think it's sin(x) = x + x^3/3! + x^5/5! + ...; if it's not
- >>that, it's something like that, and given enough time I'm sure I could work
- >>it out by trial and error). Obviously, you don't need to work anything out
- >>to the 0.1 minute accuracy HO-249 uses.
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- I did not write that, or any of the other quotes in this followup.
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- --Brian M. Godfrey
- atlastele.com
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