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Re: Metric Time
David C. Wright (wrightd@merlin.magic.mb.ca)
12 Oct 1995 21:48:32 -0500
In alt.folklore.computers article <813316024.9547@upthorpe.demon.co.uk>,
Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk (Oz) wrote:
> wrightd@merlin.magic.mb.ca (David C. Wright) wrote:
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> >Personally, I like the 15 Liters/Kilometer figure, resulting in a total
> >consumption for the given trip of 457.5 liters (I don't even want to guess
> >at what it would be in imperial). It was a bit dicey for about two years
> >after Canada changed to metric, but I don't think anybody will *ever* want
> >to go back. I find it amusing that, after Americans threw off most things
> >British, they still cling to the Imperial system of weights and measures
> >like it was a life-raft. Sooo difficult. I'm amazed they still don't use
> >Chains and Furlongs (oops - they still do, don't they?).
>
> Very good.
>
> Now could you just do it again in parsecs?
> Oh, and perhaps the energy consumption in eV/parsec.
I could in a blink, If I knew what a parsec was. Even the electron-volts
calculation is meaningless without the definition of a parsec. Since you
brought it up, please give me the definition of an Electron-volt and a
parsec (in metric, of course) and I will answer your questions for you. In
the meantime, I will expect you to produce the results in light-years (in
imperial, of course), and electron-volts in imperial (assuming such a thing
exists).
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David C. Wright | wrightd@merlin.magic.mb.ca
Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain --
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