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From: ar563303@sjuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: scientific prefixes
Message-ID: <2957@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 13:50:59 EST
Article-I.D.: sjuvax.2957
Posted: Mon Mar 24 13:50:59 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Mar-86 07:30:39 EST
References: <153@hope.UUCP> <143@atari.UUcp> <655@bentley.UUCP>
Reply-To: ar563303@sjuvax.UUCP (rowley)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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In article <655@bentley.UUCP> kwh@bentley.UUCP writes:
>>One of my favorite units of measure is the femtoparsec, or about 19
>>miles.  ("I commute .6 femtoparsecs a day....")
>
>0.6 femtoparsecs is about 60 feet.  What you're describing is a picoparsec.
>
>I like to give velocity figures in nanoc or picoc.

  If someone quoted velocity to me in terms of picocs I'd have a bird...


                                                   Tony Rowley


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 Anthony J. Rowley    St. Joseph's University   Philadelphia, PA  USA
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