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On6/7/99 12:10 PM, Bruce R'. Miller wrote: >Everyone seems to have missed the point on this one. Will's implementation >of the last stop depth is not quite what you would expect. Unlike other >programs, ZPlan seems to rearrange all of the other stops instead of just >the last one. If you set the Voyager last stop depth to 15 feet, you would >get stops like this: 40 feet, 30, 20, and finally 15. Do the same thing >with ZPlan and you get stops like these: 45, 35, 25, 15 feet. So not only >is your last stop deeper, but all of your stops (45 minutes worth, including >deep stops) are 10 feet deeper with a last stop depth of 6m instead of 3m. >That could easily add 15 minutes onto your total time. The Buhlmann model >is optimized by going as shallow as possible as quickly as possible. > >-bruce Bruce - The fact that Zplan backs all of its stops 5 feet when you set a 5m/15ft last stop depth is a bug, not a feature. I mentioned this "implementation" problem to Will Smithers about a year ago and he has promised to fix it when he gets a chance to update Zplan. It's unfortunately not high on his priority list. Best regards -- Bill -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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