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Old June 9th 05, 03:31 AM
Marc J. Zeitlin
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Peter Duniho wrote:

How so? Dead-reckoning is not nearly as reliable as pilotage....


To send us off on another tangent, and one that I haven't seen mentioned
in this thread before, it's "ded-reckoning", not "dead-reckoning". The
"ded" stands for "deduced", not whatever "dead" might stand for other
than the obvious.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled navigation argument.

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