...reality, only encumbering it with errors. A very meritorious writer, Lieut Rapcr, justly remarks, that " very indistinct and erroneous notions prevail among...time is, in consequence, often lost in computing to a dcfrreo of precision wholly inconsistent with that of the elements themselves. Tho mere habit of working...

...enable the computer to judge of the degree of precision to which he attains, the degree of dependance to be placed on the result, or the limit of probable...consequence, often lost in computing to a degree of Drecision wholly inconsistent with that of the elements themselves The mere habit of working invariably...

...relative. In the preface to Raper's Navigation, some useful advice is given on this subject : — " Very indistinct and erroneous notions prevail among...unfavourable tendency of deceiving those who are not aware ( f the true nature of Buch questions into the persuasion that the result is always as correct as the...

...relative. In the preface to Ilaper's Navigation, some useful advice is given on this subject : — " Very indistinct and erroneous notions prevail among...working invariably to a useless precision, while it ran never advance the computer's knowledge of the subject, has the unfavourable tendency of deceiving...

...Nautical Computations. Raper, in page vii. of the preface to the 1st edition of his " Navigation," says, " Very indistinct and erroneous notions prevail among...persons on the subject of accuracy of computation." We shall therefore give a few instances of the great errors that may arise from slight errors in the...

...Nautical Computations. Raper, in page vii. of the preface to the 1st edition of his " Navigation," says, " Very indistinct and erroneous notions prevail among...persons on the subject of accuracy of computation." We shall therefore give a few instances of the great errors that may arise from slight errors in the...