I figured if I was asleep nobody'd know the difference.
"The Foreign Hand Tie"
Gordon Randall Garrett
8. The Dead Reckoning from Noon to Noon If there is no change of course in the late forenoon, as is usually the case, the dead reckoning for the day's run can be figured any time before noon so that it will be all ready to hand in to the captain with the other noon data.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
Of the twenty-six dogs, we had at first figured on taking sixteen over the entire trip to the Pole and back to our caches on land, but in this last calculation only six were to be taken.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook