On 31 Mar 2004 08:27:20 -0800, (Cecil Moore)
wrote:

Everything,
including precise measurements with expensive instruments, has
limitations.

I note no measurement with instruments, expensive nor inexpensive, no
expression of limitations, no references - simply innuendo. Innuendo
is not approximation. There is no discussion as to the genesis of
this "approximation." There is no data garnered by experiment to
support it. There are no correlatives to associate it. Nothing
educational, no generality. As such, all the quality of the Old
Wife's Tale.

I believe Tom's point was that more information was known or available
preceding the "approximation" than following it, which portrays the
"approximation" as a degradation of knowledge. The process of the
"approximation" has so many constraints as to fall out of the field of
a generality, which is the common understanding of "approximation."

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC