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ordinate value is required and one against which the ordinate scales on a scientific
basis.
Possibly because the modem generation can turn so readily to and achieve so
much so quickly by the use of computers, they appear to have some reluctance to use
graphical methods which are seen as old fashioned, but the author hopes that the
extensive use of graphical methods in this book may show how useful they can be.