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IN my review of “Statistical Tables”, by Fisher and Yates (NATURE, September 23, p. 533), I referred to the “interesting innovation of providing mean differences for half the interval only”. Dr. L. J. Comrie has pointed out to me that this practice is followed in E. V. Huntington's “Four Place Tables of Logarithms and Trigonometric Functions”, and I gladly take the opportunity of acknowledging this fact.
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WISHART, J. Tables for Statisticians. Nature 144, 788 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144788a0
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