 | Jeremiah Day - Measurement - 1815 - 388 pages
...sides, To the correction in the corresponding departure or latitude. This correction, if .applied to the column in which the sum •of the numbers is too small, is to be added ; but if to th* other column, it is to be subtracted* See the example on the next page. *fiee the fourth number... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1824 - 440 pages
...correction in the corresponding departure or latitude, This correction, if applied to the column in whieh the sum of the numbers is too small, is to be added; but if to the other column, it is to be subtracted.* See the example on the next page. * See the fourth Number... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1831 - 418 pages
...To the correction in the corresponding departure of ' latitude. This correction, if applied to the column in which the sum of the numbers is too small, is to be added ; but if to the other column, it is to be subtracted.* See the example on the next page. See the fourth Number... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Measurement - 1831 - 394 pages
...sides, To the correction in the corresponding departure or latitude. This correction, if applied to the column in which the sum of the numbers is too small, is to be added ; but if to the other column, it is to be subtracted.* See the example on the next page. .<. ... See the fourth... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1838 - 416 pages
...sides, To the correction in the corresponding departure or latitude. This correction, if applied to the column in which the sum of the numbers is too small, is to be added; but if to the other column, it is to be subtracted* See the example on the next page. » See the fourth number... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1839 - 434 pages
...sides, To the correction in the corresponding departure or latitude. This correction, if applied to the column in which the sum of the numbers is too small, is to be added; but if to the other column, it is to be subtracted* See the example on the next page. * See the fourth number... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1851 - 418 pages
...sides, To the correction in the corresponding departure or latitude. This correction, if applied to the column in which the sum of the numbers is too small, is to be added; but if to the other column, it is to be subtracted* See the example on the next page. * * See the fourth number... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Trigonometry - 1855 - 192 pages
...length of one of the sides, So is the error in latitude or departure, To the correction corresponding 1 to that side. This correction, when applied to a column...the sums of the northings and southings are equal, and also those of the eastings and westings. As the computations are generally carried to but two decimal... | |
 | William Smyth - Navigation - 1855 - 234 pages
...latitude or departure, To the correction corresponding to that side. This correction must be added when applied to a column in which the sum of the numbers is too small, and subtracted in the case where the sum of the numbers is too great. In the present example, there... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Trigonometry - 1859 - 218 pages
...correction corresponding to that side. This correction, when applied to a column in which the sura of the numbers is too small, is to be added ; but...the sums of the northings and southings are equal, and also those of the eastings and westings. As the computations are generally carried to but two decimal... | |
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Small errors of this kind are unavoidable ; but when the error does not exceed one link to a distance of three or four chains, it is customary to distribute the error among the sides by the following proportion : As the perimeter of the field, Is to the... 
