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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/05/07 02:00
Marc Christiansen wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Toby A Inkster wrote:
>>> Rik Wasmus wrote:
>>>
>>> ____
>>> 1. It is noteworthy that the UK's motorway speed limit (70 miles/hour) is
>>> almost exactly 4 millilightyears per fortnight (it's about 4.0009353).
>>>
>> Toby,
>>
>> With a claim like that, I had to check it. I think your figures are a
>> bit off.
>>
>> 1 light year is about 5.87849981×10^12 miles. In one fortnight that
>> would be about 225,322,374,647 miles. 1/1000 of that would be
>> 225,322,374 miles. I think you'd have to be going a lot faster than 70
>> mph to get that many miles in a fortnight. :-)
>>
> What did you calculate to get 225,322,374,647 miles? 1 light year *
> 26.09? If yes, why?
> But Toby got it slightly wrong too. 1 light year per fortnight is
> 5.87849981×10^12 miles / (14 * 24 hours), about 17495535149 miles/hour,
> so 70 miles/hour are about 4 nano light years per fortnight.
>
> Ciao
> Marc
>
Either of 2 ways - 5.87849981×10^12 / 365 * 14 or 186 282.397 * 60 8 60
* 24 * 14. Both give similar answers.
But you're wrong - you need to divide 5.87849981×10^12 by 365 to get the
number of miles in a light day, then multiply by 14 days.
I have no idea where you got 5.87849981×10^12 / (14 * 24). But one
light hour is 670,616,629 miles or so.
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