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Major Segrave's Speed Record of 231.…m.p.h

Nature volume 123, pages 493–494 (1929)Cite this article

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THERE has been much self-satisfied amusement over the five places of decimals in which Major Segrave's speed record on Mar. 21 was recorded in the Press. Truly these are merely arithmetical residues—a waste product. A lad with a healthy sense of what is the good part of an apple scoffs at saving up the skin for microscopic study—it is a waste product.

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O'GORMAN, M. Major Segrave's Speed Record of 231.…m.p.h. Nature 123, 493–494 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123493b0

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