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a. Estimate the diameter of your eyeball.
b. Bring this page up to the closest distance at which the text is sharp-not the closest at which you can still read it, but the closest at which the letters remain sharp. If you wear glasses or contact lenses, leave them on. This distance is called the near point of your (possibly corrected) eye. Record it.
c. Estimate the effective focal length of your eye. The effec-tive focal length includes the focusing due to the tens, the curvature of the cornea, and any corrections you wear. Ignore the effects of the fluid in your eye.
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