final comment on SD (Re: algorithm ...)

[Warren Family]

Yes agreed - I was thinking the same :-).  Something along the lines of
*equate vertical station_1 station_2
to make the z co-ordinate for the two stations into one-and-the-same 
variable.
Although this overloads the *equate command, hopefully it can be parsed 
since it's followed by /three/ tokens not two.


On 06/11/2022 10:40, Andy Waddington - cave surveying mailbox wrote:
> Sometime before sending Warren Family<warrenfamily at fastmail.com>  typed (and on Fri, 4 Nov 2022 20:32:40 +0000 sent):
>
>> Of course once one is into this 'game' one might just as well set ∆z = 0
>> for the fake leg, and shrink the vertical SD to a very small value, ...
>> and then we're back to the original proposal :-).
> It does seem that, whilst exposing what is going on to examination, all
> these ideas are fudges. Surely it would be better to integrate the whole
> thing into code ? Since what is beng stated is that two points in the survey
> must, by the laws of physics, be at the same level, surely what is needed
> is a way of just saying this in the survey data, and allowing the program to
> implement the sorts of calculations that have been outlined previously ?
>
> Andy
>