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    Re: Hav-Doniol
    From: Marcelo S
    Date: 2015 Jun 13, 11:41 -0300

    Students with a maths background will prefer a single formula.
    
    
    2015-06-13 9:56 GMT-03:00, Stan K :
    > Last night I sent a message to Greg Rudzinski describing a really silly,
    > even obvious, mistake I was making in using the Greg/Hanno hav-Doniol sight
    > reduction method.  This got me thinking (something I apparently should do
    > more often), so I went through the fer3 archive looking at all the posts
    > regarding longhand sight reduction.  This is what came out of it:
    >
    >
    > Greg presents two sets of formulas:
    > 	n = hv(L - d)	m = hv(L + d)	same name
    > 	n = hv(L + d)	m = hv(L - d)	contrary name
    > where L (latitude) and d (declination) are unsigned (absolute) values, i.e.
    > 40ºN and 40ºS would both be represented as 40º.
    >
    >
    > Hanno appears to prefer a single set of formula, equivalent to the "same
    > name" formulas above (though he uses one different letter), where L and d
    > are signed, i.e. 40ºS would be represented as -40º.
    >
    >
    > These are different approaches but are functionally equivalent.  What I
    > would like to know is if anyone has a strong feeling as to whether either of
    > these approaches would be better than the other one in a classroom
    > environment, that is, whether students would have an easier time
    > understanding, and instructors would have an easier time teaching, one
    > compared to the other.
    >
    >
    > Stan
    >
    >
    > :
    > http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/HavDoniol-StanK-jun-2015-g31655
    >
    >
    >
    >
    

       
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