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Re: Watches as chronometers
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2013 May 31, 14:57 -0400
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2013 May 31, 14:57 -0400
Bill
I'd be shocked if Gary missed leap year adjustments! He told us a precise number of days in this email chain
Gary is way too careful to bungle this IMO
Brad
On May 31, 2013 2:42 PM, "Bill B" <billyrem42@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 5/31/2013 1:11 AM, Gary LaPook wrote: > Using only one watch with the largest error, 40 seconds, would > resulted in a 10 minute of longitude error. Using the average of > all three watches would have produced an error of only one minute > of longitude, not bad for fifty-one dollars worth of watches > after more than three and a half years. Being it is you I am almost embarrassed to ask, but did you factor leap seconds into your computations? Bill B
