On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Terry Simpson asked: > What is the difference between the 1973 and the 1964 editions?
Correction of several type setting errors, and addition of a few more non-metric units. > Is it available online? No. The Web did not exist in those days. > ... I judge output precision according to a variety of factors, > input precision being only one of these. For example, measuring equipment > may provide 6 significant figures and my judgement may be that the output > only needs 4. Ok. The least precise input variable frequently imposes the limit on the precision of the output if all the variables are of equal importance. However, this is not true, for example, if some terms are more important than others, e.g. squared, or cubed. Gene.
