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inherent rounding errors. do not confuse with a commercial astronomy ...

with the use of a basic scientific calculator. The navigator possibility of errors, and increase the accuracy of results ...

...he tide, as it affects access to shallow ports. The navigator is concerned with the time, speed, and direction of the tidal current, as it will affect his with a uniform layer of water, the differential forces ...

...me of God, and who was fond of putting embarrassing questions, received it with—"M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of ...les satellites de Jupiter."{{ref|8}} Laplace opened his eyes and answered with deep {{pagenum|3}} gravity, "''L'homme ne poursuit que des chimères''."{{re ...

...e—actually ''get our tails again''? What if the first man who was detected with such an appendage should be obliged to confess himself the author of the '' :With a hole behind which his tail peeped through. ...

...1){{sup|''b''}} (1.01){{sup|''c''}} (1.001){{sup|''d''}}... and to operate with this form. This is an ingenious and elaborate speculation; and I have no do ...nized method, which, without subsidiary tables, showed them, in six quarto pages, the solution (''x''=8.367975431) of the equation ...

...—another bearing "bank token five pence." The only signature is a triangle with a little circle in it, which I interpret to mean that the writer confesses ...can do it. Dr. Whewell{{ref|602}} and I amused ourselves, some years ago, with attempts. He could not make sense, though he joined words: he gave me ...