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> The Register has poured Ingenuity's flight log into Excel and sorted the data, leading us to conclude that Flight 62 will surpass Flight 60's top speed of 8m/sec.

Just seems like a funny line to write.

Remarkable bit of engineering, that’s for sure. (Edit talking about Ingenuity here)

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I have poured the flight log into a fisher price abacus and the say and see machine, leading us to conclude that Flight 62 will surpass Flight 60's top speed of 8m/sec and a cow says 'moo'.

When you don't have a lot of data points, but a good amount of variables, excel is genuinely the best-suited tool for the task.

Oh, for sure, just struck me as a strange thing to add to an article.

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