fromArs Technica
2 days agoScientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables
"We figured out that if you do that, you're going to miss the eclipses, and we know they didn't. They made internal adjustments. We think they'd restart the table midway. When you do that, you go from having missed eclipses to having none. You would never miss an eclipse. So it's not a calculated predictive table, it's a calculated predictive table plus adjustments based on empirical observations over time."
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