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Re: Dip uncertainty
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 6, 13:56 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 6, 13:56 -0500
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Bruce Stark wrote: > My argument depends, first, on the idea that > the main uncertainty in air > density is down close to the water. This I do not dispute. I just claim that the error of the taller observer is the SUM of the error of the shorter one PLUS an additional error. And that it is unlikely that these two summands will have opposite signs. But I agree that there should be experiments in the literature, and that it would be very interesting to find this literature. Alex.