Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 12/05/07 20:40

"Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:59:24 +0100, Toby A Inkster

>> 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).

Oh, my - BTW?
That sounds like *twice* the energy of a BTU.

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