On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 23:56 -0700, Hal Murray wrote: > > > > Think about the code that some poor programmer is going to have to > > write as > > they read your PDF. Instead of an if-else-if sequence that goes on > > for > > pages, is there a simpler way to generate pUTC? I mean, no human is > > going to > > read your PDF and manually go through the guidelines you present. > > So maybe > > think of the code first instead of the prose. > The if-else mess can be turned into a loop scanning a table. (or > binary > search) > > If the table format is anything sane, you could publish the table > someplace > public and give it a name. If somebody comes along with a better > proposal, > they can publish their table. Any paper that uses this technique > needs to > specify which table they use. > > I think there is already something similar for correcting carbon-14 > dates. > If you publish a paper using C-14 dating, you specify which > corrections you > used. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating#Atmospheric_variat > ion > > >
I agree that publishing a table is a good idea. Any suggestions on the format? John Sauter ([email protected]) -- PGP fingerprint = E24A D25B E5FE 4914 A603 49EC 7030 3EA1 9A0B 511E
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