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Nathan: Sun's goin' down, and so's my motivation says: (11:53:14 am)
   Say Tom. Did we take any kind of error figures duirng our experiment?

Nathan: Sun's goin' down, and so's my motivation says: (11:53:25 am)
   You know, like on the linear fits or anything?

Fitting the data to the results. says: (11:53:29 am)
   not as far as I can see.

Nathan: Sun's goin' down, and so's my motivation says: (11:53:33 am)
   Damn

Nathan: Sun's goin' down, and so's my motivation says: (11:53:34 am)
   Oh well

Fitting the data to the results. says: (11:53:55 am)
   is this so called ionic moment supposed to be constant.

Nathan: Scientific travesty says: (11:54:14 am)
   Uh, yeah

Nathan: Scientific travesty says: (11:54:16 am)
   i think so

Fitting the data to the results. says: (11:54:37 am)
   the sort of bad luck

Fitting the data to the results. says: (11:54:42 am)
   considering it isn't

Nathan: RTaylor'd kill me says: (11:54:47 am)
   Say what?

Fitting the data to the results. says: (11:55:15 am)
   It plot quite a good linear fit though

Nathan: RTaylor'd kill me says: (11:55:41 am)
   So surely, the inoic moment is then just the gradient

Nathan: RTaylor'd kill me says: (11:55:53 am)
   If we're talking abou tthe same thing

Fitting the data to the results. says: (11:56:22 am)
   ionic moment S2/S1 * B

Nathan: RTaylor'd kill me says: (11:56:54 am)
   Hell, let's just fudge it the best we can and hope that Dr Biller doesn't nptice the gaping discrepancies in what are nominally the same experiment

Fitting the data to the results. says: (11:57:04 am)
   good idea