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From: "Bob May" <bobmay@nethere.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 08:59:06 -0700
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What do you mean by errors?
The biggest error in the Foucault test is the inability of the average
tester to be able to match the shadows correctly and get the right COC for
the zone.
All the rest of the error sources, the ones that are sort of inherent in the
test, are all down in the 1/100th wave and so forth, an area where it is
difficult to even consider for anybody as the test usually tops out in the
1/40th of a wave because of the readings granularity.
Bob May
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