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Originally Posted by G8HQP Dave
One of the nice things about writing a book (unlike lecturing, for example) is that you can use vagueness to sweep messy details under the carpet. Sometimes this avoids adding many pages (which might upset the publisher); sometimes the author is just not interested in that topic; and I assume sometimes the author realizes that he does not know enough about that topic to write anything useful but still needs to mention it in passing.
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I have witnessed that in some of the books written by F.E. Terman. In places, there are certain topics of high relevance to Radio Engineering that he has not mentioned at all. But he is not alone in making such omissions, but that is no justification for any author to so do.
Al.