Posted by Rik Wasmus on 12/05/07 09:11

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:59:24 +0100, Toby A Inkster
<usenet200712@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

> 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!

For some weird bizarre reason, the term 'kilofortnight' is enough te keep
me grinning for an hour... Almost as good as when I calculated the fuel
efficiency of a car in acres (it was 15.4 picoacres BTW).
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Rik Wasmus

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