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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: scientific prefixes
Message-ID: <1088@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 17:41:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 17:41:39 1986
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In article <143@atari.UUcp> dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer) writes:
>
>One of my favorite units of measure is the femtoparsec, or about 19
>miles.  ("I commute .6 femtoparsecs a day....")
>

This isn't what units claims:

	$ units
	you have: femtoparsecs
	you want: miles
	       * 1.917351e-02
	       / 5.215529e+01

Here is a good one: if you measure fuel efficiency of a car by 
how much gas it takes to go a given distance, one can get some 
neat units.  For example, my car was recently getting 19 
picoacres...  

Or here is a good one from cooking: a teaspoon is about .6 barn 
megaparsecs.

Gee, isn't units a fun program?
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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim