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Old August 16th, 2005, 05:06 PM
jmk
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Doug Freyburger wrote:


Arguably the best way to handle it is to use an arithmatic
smoothing formula. The simplist is to weigh 2 days in
a row and average them. From there on add today's weight
plus yesterday's average. Average those 2 numbers by
dividing by 2. Write that one down for tomorrow. This
makes the daily bounce of water have much less effect.
Even better is to use 3 or 4 in place of the 2's above to
get more gradual smoothing. There are very fancy formulas
that are a trivial improvement on this simple method.


I use a graph and watch the trends.

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