Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/04/07 19:19

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. :-)

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