On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:32:04 +0000, Andy Johnson <[log in to unmask]>

Totally confused wrote:

>You still miss the most basic point, the computer does NOT determine a
>Reverse Profile; some git plucks the figures from the air & stuffs them in
>the algorithms. The computer then calculates that the requirements have
>been met to decide this, and penalises accordingly. Forget (largely)
>irrelevant concepts like day & night & this might become a bit clearer -
>there are just dives & surface intervals. Think man, think !!!

In fact the goal of a dive computer isn't to determine
a reverse dive profile. It's instead to save the diver
when he did the mistake to do a reverse dive profile.
Don't think man, let your computer do the job!!!

Confucio