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Re: The Darn Old Cocked Hat - the sequel 1
From: Hanno Ix
Date: 2013 Mar 12, 13:10 -0700
From: Hanno Ix
Date: 2013 Mar 12, 13:10 -0700
"Sorry, I can speak correctly or understandably - not both" .
Heisenberg.
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John:
This is a big peace of work that you sent, and I am seriously oblidged!
In responding, let me pick just a couple of issues.
To get started, please answer the 2 questions I posed re: CelNav cruise on the
US carrier "Barak Obama" in San Diego waters, will you? 
Next, please read the attached part 2 of my memo "The Darn Old..."
I hope it will show my goals of these 2 memos.
Further, more questions that might be helpful to clear up things:
You are trying to find a zero, say a zero of a standard parable, and will use Newton's
iteration method, well, just because ...
My questions are:
* Will it always converge, if it does, to the same point no matter your personal approximate choice at the start?
* Does the distribution of the step errors close to the zero depend on this choice of yours?
* Are we in a comparable situation when using St. Hilaire?
* What is the difference to using an algebraic solution that does not start with a guess??
* What is the difference to ignoring the LOPs and their error distributions and using only the corner points?.
Would you please consider them?
As you can see, I seem to be missing something in your argument.
Best Regards, John
h
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PS:
1. http://fer3.com/arc/imgx/f1-Cocked-Hat-V2.pdf; is not available on the navlist.
2. I cannot locate any paper by Goudsmith or even their titles.
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