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| September 27, 2001 03:05PM |
<HTML>Hi Stephen,
"You don't need "sophisticated optical
instruments" or "spherical trigonometrical calculation" to achieve
precisions better than half a degree -- it is trivial to do this with
nothing more complicated than two straight edges and a primitive
sighting device so that one or both edges can also be used as an alidade.
Spherical trigonometry has nothing to do with it! All that is required
is the simple transfer of a pattern."
Thank you. You just explained that it is entirely possible for rudimentary methods to achieve very good representations. Excellent point!
Hi Chris!
Yup....I wonder. Maybe <I>uncanny<I> precision...or something like that.
Soon...
_____________
Rob,
"I really have better things to do than to constantly repeat these points."
And almost two decades worth...I respect your tenacity. You may not have to worry about or repeat it anymore - hopefully within a couple of months (or less). Were you able to get that info for myself and Chris?
Avry</HTML>
"You don't need "sophisticated optical
instruments" or "spherical trigonometrical calculation" to achieve
precisions better than half a degree -- it is trivial to do this with
nothing more complicated than two straight edges and a primitive
sighting device so that one or both edges can also be used as an alidade.
Spherical trigonometry has nothing to do with it! All that is required
is the simple transfer of a pattern."
Thank you. You just explained that it is entirely possible for rudimentary methods to achieve very good representations. Excellent point!
Hi Chris!
Yup....I wonder. Maybe <I>uncanny<I> precision...or something like that.
Soon...
_____________
Rob,
"I really have better things to do than to constantly repeat these points."
And almost two decades worth...I respect your tenacity.
You may not have to worry about or repeat it anymore - hopefully within a couple of months (or less). Were you able to get that info for myself and Chris?Avry</HTML>
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