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From: berry@tolerant.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: scientific prefixes
Message-ID: <313@tolerant.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 18:30:35 EST
Article-I.D.: tolerant.313
Posted: Wed Mar 26 18:30:35 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Mar-86 04:37:35 EST
References: <153@hope.UUCP> <143@atari.UUcp> <1088@ism780c.UUCP>
Reply-To: berry@handel.UUCP (David W. Berry)
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In article <1088@ism780c.UUCP> you write:
>
>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...  
>
	But acres are a measure of area, not distance.  Therefore
it is meaningless to compute gallons/picoacres unless you are trying
to compute how much gas it will take to spread your car out over a
given area, presumably by rapid combustion... :-)
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