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Re:The Calculus They Won't Teach You [video] by a9h74j on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:56PM (#34252426)
Darn, at some point I started imagining he had a protocol for synchronizing clocks over a distance. assuming the difference was in longitude. (E.g. Symmetric NTP over carrier pidgeon.)
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Re:The Calculus They Won't Teach You [video] by not2b on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:56PM (#34253164)
Longitude was a much tougher problem to solve.
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Re:The Calculus They Won't Teach You [video] by a9h74j on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:05AM (#34256943)
Yea, recalling the book of that name might have contributed to my drift of recollection. Solvable earlier on land (but not sea) on terms of clock synchronization.
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