Dear Bob,
Many thanks. I feel better that I hadn't forgotten anything!
Stan.
At 15:45 11/03/2003 +0000, Robert O. Gould wrote:
>Dear Stan,
>> I didn't start crystallography until well into the 1960's, but often
> heard
>Arnold Beevers talking about the "old days". I think that, since structure
>factor calculation (especially in two dimensions) is fairly trivail
>compared to
>Fourier calculation, people didn't bother too much about devising clever
>methods. Kathleen Lonsdale's tables, which fill so much of the old Int Tab
>Volume I, were designed to simplify direct calculation.
>> Strips (e.g. the Beevers Lipson type) could be used, since the SF and
>Fourier calculations are so similar, but I expect most people didn't bother,
>considering the relatively small number of atoms and reflections they were
>working with.
>>All the best
>>Bob
>>Bob Gould
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