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Re: Box Sextant and "Natural Tangents to a Base of 100"?
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 Feb 20, 15:03 -0800
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 Feb 20, 15:03 -0800
I suspect that the reason for a tan scale is for those who want to measure heights or for determining distances from a landmark with a known height.
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