R's and background

r.young@physics.gatech.edu
Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:20:02

Dear Armel:

You wrote:
>So who invented first the "total Rp and Rwp" ?? This don't seems to
>be H.M. Rietveld, IMHO. Or maybe the old software I just had a
>look inside was not the original ?

>Armel

Well, in the late 70's we put a refinable background (polynomial) into our
program which later became DBW* and, later, DBWS*. We did not forsee that
this was to bring us opprobrium!

-Ray

R. A. Young, Professor Emeritus
School of Physics
Georgia Institute of Technology
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