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Baseline — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. -10-50-2-10baseline (m, log scale)worst deviation in the recovered shape (log scale)exact pointsread to 1 pxat 2 mm: 4.7e-9 exact, 2.9e+1 read to 1 px6e+9× apart

    A turn of the head is not a step sideways

    The textbook says a short baseline makes reconstruction ill-conditioned. Measured, the algebra does not notice — a two-millimetre baseline recovers the courtyard to nine digits from exact marks. What fails is the ratio of baseline to reading error, and it fails without refusing.

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