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Old 10-07-2009, 10:40 PM   #56 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Tele man View Post
...what's the "consensus" thought on the "round-off" number (0.80-0.84, etc.) that's applied to compensate the "rectangular" area value (width x height - gnd clearance)?

...I've seen anything from 0.80 through 0.90 being used, but 0.84 seems most common.
I dropped the wiki data into a spreadsheet to answer this question. 100% of the entries are between 0.81 and 0.87, and 90% are between 0.81 and 0.84.
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