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    Re: Why are NA sight reduction tables not popular?
    From: Dave Walden
    Date: 2012 Apr 9, 07:28 -0700

    This time with attachment!

    Gary wrote:

    >>It would be interesting if somebody would do the same computation with the N.A. tables and post it for comparison.

    Here's an EXCEL spread sheet that puts the looked up values in the green boxes.

    (Extra credit, figure out the extra interpolation method that avoids correction tables.)

    ((Automating the whole process, including calculating the values found in the Table, for a spread sheet certainly aids the learning/understanding!))
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