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Hi, this has been, and of course is, a very interesting subject.
Arthur, why don't you post the spreadsheet on the list?
Fair winds to all
Gennaro Sammarco
At 11.57 13/04/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Not boring me....  I went back and checked my Palm pilot's distance off
>formulas, I had some of the same troubles you had setting them up. I can
>email an Excel spreadsheet that has inputs for all the distance off
>parameters (height in feet, height by sextant, index error, height of
>eye in feet) and combines them to produce the distance off in nautical
>miles. I imported this spreadsheet into my Palm which has MiniCalc on it
>and it runs fine. Let me know if it would be helpful to you.
>
>Arthur.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Navigation Mailing List
>[mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM] On Behalf Of Martin Gardner
>Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 9:34 AM
>To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
>Subject: Re: Bowditch Table 9
>
>George,
>
>Thanks for the partial results.  With them I found a pure clerical error
>in
>my formula entry.
>
>Incidentally, I had intended my last note to go only to you, as it
>didn't
>seem of general interest.  But is seems you _are_ the list, at least
>from a
>'reply to sender' point of view.  Sorry if I'm boring others.
>
>Martin

   

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