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Re: Silicon Sea
From: Robert Gainer
Date: 2006 May 19, 15:15 -0400
From: Robert Gainer
Date: 2006 May 19, 15:15 -0400
A downside to changing the date is that it will again be out of date immediately. A lot of work and in less then a year you are back to the same place. I think keeping the date and including the relevant pages from the almanac is all we need to do. I had not thought about the question of set and drift. It is something that might best be changed to come into line with the accepted texts on navigation. Any reason not to make that change? Robert Gainer > > From: Renee Mattie> Date: 2006/05/19 Fri AM 10:23:11 EDT > To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM > Subject: Re: Silicon Sea > > I hadn't even considered bringing the problems up to 2007. > I know creating the problems was a big project, and I assume that redoing > them all would be another big project. I've learned how to work these > problems forward, but I have never yet tried working them backwards. > > I think that, with suitable almanac extracts, the book should be good for > learners. > > Renee >