Re: [NTLK] Newton Tide table software

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2004 - 09:37:16 PDT

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Ted Ramsden wrote:
> Does anyone know of any tide table prediction software available for the
> newt ???

There isn't but it has been the topic of discussion here before, view the
previous thread:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106250151900001&r=1&w=2

The main issue is that tide prediction relies on lots of crunching of recorded
data. The data takes up quite a bit of space and the algorithm for predicting
is non-trivial to implement...

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