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THERE is no wholly satisfactory text-book on interpolation, especially on the practical side. The Nautical Almanac staff have a wide experience of interpolation and sub-tabulation, and they have developed methods which appear to be superior to those generally known. This pamphlet will serve a useful purpose in making such methods more widely known, and the explanations are full enough to make it a working manual of interpolation for those who have an elementary theoretical knowledge of the subject. The method for inverse interpolation is new, and possibly more convenient than any of those already published. Special attention is directed towards ‘critical tables', which are used without interpolation and have a maximum error of only half the usual amoiint.
Interpolation and Allied Tables
Reprinted from the Nautical Almanac for 1937. Pp. ii + 44. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1936.) 1s. net.
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P., H. [Short Notices]. Nature 139, 461 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139461d0
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