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"Alan Smith" <ala### [at] aurora-uk com> wrote in message
news:3f4bf48c@news.povray.org...
> You might also be interested in trying Googles flexible conversion
thingy...
> try Googling ... "10 km / 3 furlongs" for example.
I don't know. All of it makes me want to create my own personal units of
measure and say the heck with it. Oops, I might have already done so after
seeing what I said just before, I mistakenly typed a 3 into feet in a mile;
52830 instead of the correct 5280. BTW, I noticed one web page says that
number is 5278.87 even though every other place I look says otherwise.
http://www.cocori.com/prime/misc/convert.htm
Bob H.
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In article <3f4c71d4@news.povray.org>,
"Hughes, B." <omn### [at] charternet> wrote:
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> 52830 instead of the correct 5280. BTW, I noticed one web page says that
> number is 5278.87 even though every other place I look says otherwise.
There are also two definitions of the printer's "point size". 72 pt to
the inch, and 72.27 pt to the inch.
--
Kaveh
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ingo <ing### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Why would you need to do these conversions?
I don't want to sound insulting, but is this some kind of
Microsoft ideology?
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in news:3f4ca99c@news.povray.org Warp wrote:
> I don't want to sound insulting, but is this some kind of
> Microsoft ideology?
>
What? They have an ideology?
Ingo
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There is only one True Measurement System, the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight
system.
However, for comfort and ease of calculus, distances are also expressible in
attoparsecs.
--alex
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In article <web.3f4cc5bb71ab137b15e7f0160@news.povray.org>,
"Alex" <ale### [at] alphacit> wrote:
> However, for comfort and ease of calculus, distances are also expressible in
> attoparsecs.
A little over 3 cm...
A light-nanosecond is also actually a useful sized unit...a hair less
than 30 cm.
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http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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