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    Recently there was long thread about the BCA. I can now post possible answers to some of the questions, such as "Why is the BCA still raising membership prices when there is a significant amount still left in its coffers?"

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    DCUC

    Dear All, Is there any current contact/functioning with the DCUC. I have been trying to contact them through their access officer and chairman for awhile with no success. Is there any current way of accessing any of the caves they control access to in Devon
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    Chat GPt - a way to go for reliable information

    A good point, but as an engineering geologist rather than a mathematician I have relied on Schum's handbook of Mathematical Identities and the like for 40 yrs, without feeling the need to prove each one. I think it is about a matter of trust, checking and use where appropriate, but if I can use...
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    Chat GPt - a way to go for reliable information

    Course it can do calculus as most of calculus is a set of basic algorithms!!
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    Chat GPt - a way to go for reliable information

    Replying to earlier post regarding coding, much in agreement with earlier comment. With caves and cave hydrology in mind it has produced some useful code for time series analysis and extreme value analysis. Mrodoc, do you mean indexing or referencing have you tried LaTeX. it will do both for...
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    Geology of Buckfast Hill

    I was wondering whether anyone had considered the implications of the BGS remapping of the Dartmoor Sheet with respect to the earlier interpretation of Willcock (1982 - proc of the Ussher Soc.) of the geology of Buckfast Hill - and implications for the development of Bakers. Particularly the...
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    Wanted Computer Program help

    When you mentioned the size of the columns I immediately thought of the two alternatives. I use R personally more than Python, though a colleague uses python. Compared to VBA I find R far easier to use and there are some very helpful web resources. If you are not in academia chatGPT is very...
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    Wanted Computer Program help

    Why don't you import it into R or Python, I think you will find the coding much easier than VBA and there is lots of internet support
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    Access to Bakers

    Dear All, Does anyone know the current procedure to gain access to Bakers Pit. Contacting DCUC seems a bit sketchy for a while.
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