Summed partials count as one. SCALA doesn't adjust for <360deg, maybe it should 
as they are not independent. What would you call them?

I prefer "multiplicity" since  Elspeth Garman commented "if they are redundant 
why bother measuring them"

Phil

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On 15 Jul 2011, at 18:24, James Holton <jmhol...@lbl.gov> wrote:

> 
> At the risk of asking a question to which I should already know the answer:
> 
> do partials "count" as "redundancy"?
> 
> That is, in SCALA, is the number of "observations" the number of recorded 
> spots?  Or is it the number of recorded spots after adding partials?   If it 
> is the latter, what happens if you collect more than 360 degrees of data?  
> Does the second pass through a given unmerged hkl index count as "more 
> partials" or is it now somehow upgraded to an "independent" observation?
> 
> Then again, in Eastern English the word "redundancy" has a negative 
> connotation, and the output of SCALA actually uses the word "multiplicity".  
> I wonder if that makes unmerged partials "redundant"?
> 
> -James Holton
> MAD Scientist
> 
> On 7/15/2011 8:09 AM, Ed Pozharski wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 09:26 +0100, Phil Evans wrote:
>>> Ed. You could count them from the unmerged output as you say, or I
>>> could make you a special version of SCALA or Aimless maybe next week
>>> 
>> Phil,
>> 
>> that would be fantastic!  Hope there is broader interest in such option
>> (beyond Robbie and myself). I'll try unmerged output in the meantime.
>> 
>> Ed.
>> 
> 

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