[rollei_list] Re: Austin has Unsubscribed


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On 4/19/05, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (edited):
>=20
> Before electronic computers were developed some theory was
> presented only in simplified form because the mathematics
> were inractible by the available methods of computation.

Do you mean infractible? If so, are you saying that before computers
people were incapable of precise mathematics?

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Peter K
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I remember reading that the original Zeiss Sonnar computations were carried
out over three years by three men and consisted of more than 3,200 pages of
figures back in the early thirties -- this seems precise to me :)

Doug

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