Re: Sources of error in Carbon-14 dating?


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Posted by Steve Price on June 23, 1999 at 04:39:58:

In Reply to: Re: Sources of error in Carbon-14 dating? posted by Erol Abit on June 22, 1999 at 15:10:47:

Dear Erol,

Thanks for your directions to the mathematics of C-14 dating. Many of our readers may not fully understand that one consequence of the exponential nature of the decay is that small percentage errors in counting C-14 become larger percentage errors in date estimation.

Steve Price


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