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Re: Dr
From: Mike Wescott
Date: 1999 Feb 23, 13:05 EST
From: Mike Wescott
Date: 1999 Feb 23, 13:05 EST
Dan Hogan writes: > My fault. We agreed during the legs from Maldives to Sydney to call DR= > no current and EP=current. Will change my terminology. I'm having a > hard time with this since in all my sailing all I used the term DR for > everything. This is always the difficulty in trying to set realistic problems for others to solve: terminology. When you are doing it "for real", you know what "it" is that you want to know even if you don't know the name for "it". Dan & co. have done a great job in setting problems based on their own exprience. The rest of us, as armchair sailors, need to think a little more clearly about the problem to be solved (and what definition *really* applies) and to document our assumptions and methods and calculations in our answers. It's a bit more work, but a lot more instructive for everyone involved. <PRE> -- -Mike Wescott mike.wescott@XXX.XXX =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= =-= TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send this message to majordomo@XXX.XXX: =-= =-= unsubscribe navigation =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= </PRE>