Re: McCoy's grasp of math is poor.


<mccoy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I can accept this. But you have to understand if you aim an instrument
toward a distant star to which we have no idea as to how far it is, we
couldn't verify it if we tried.

As long as the math is correct, you can verify it anytime you do the
calculation. Are you claiming that mathmatic equasions don't work over
long distances?

But with Hipparcos you can make the
necessary corrections and improve upon it to perfection, namely because
Hipparcos is within range to everything we need to measure.

What makes you think astronomers require "perfection"?

We can
maneuver spacecrafts with it or make predictions to where a planet is
supposed to be at a given time. It's within millions of miles and not
in meaurements of light years. How in the world do you measure and
test something lightyears away?

The same way you'd measure something thousands and millions of miles away.
The only differene is that of degree. The calculations are the same, no
matter where you move the decimal point in the calculation. That you don't
seem to understand that is why people are telling you that you don't
understand basic math.

DJT

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