Ordnance Pamphlet 770 by the United States Navy is concerned with testing and calibrating the 16 inch/50 caliber guns of the Iowa class of fast battleships. I use modern digital computer methods to attempt to reproduce the analog computations of the ordnance pamphlet. Recall that digital computers did not exist in 1941, but analog computers using cams, differentials, gears, and levers did exist.
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Numerical Explorations 