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Old 01-18-2018, 12:11 PM   #1330
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Originally Posted by GlennD View Post
I think the characters in the book used the reference books because a simple mistake of a single digit would put them in another part of the galaxy.....which is exactly what happened. (Are spoiler alerts necessary for a book several decades old? )
Similar stakes apply to transcribing Morse code. Nuclear stakes, for example.

EDIT: I mean, I get using logarithmic tables and geometric function tables, and that's probably the correspondence RAH was drawing. Trouble is, deriving sine and tangent values is much more complicated than remembering how to multiply and divide by two.
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