Posted by Toby A Inkster on 12/05/07 08:59
Marc Christiansen wrote:
> 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.
Yes, dammit I did. I originally had 4 microlightyears per kilofortnight
and then multiplied one side down by 1000 and the other up by 1000. D'oh!
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