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heliocentric angular distance of the planet above the plane of its assumed orbit, we shall take an indiscriminate mean of the errors of geocentric latitude of each group, multiply it by 0.98 to reduce it to heliocentric error, and correct it for the mean error in longitude. The mean errors of… … The solution of which by least squares gives ip=— 0".73; og = — 0" 41. The residuals, multiplying the first by 10 to reduce it to actual observed error, are 1795, + 0.7 1846-49, —0.13 1850-53, -+ 0.07 1854-57, + 0.09 1858-61, + 0.07 1862-64, —0.10 So that the Lalande observation is represented…
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