On Monday 25 February 2019 13:35:41 Bruce Layne wrote: > On 2/25/19 5:10 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > My favourite wierd unit is the megaparsec.barn. It's a about a > > teaspoon, but very long and thin. > > There's a Wikipedia article for people like you. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement > > When I first heard that Google would do unit conversions, I naturally > asked it how many teaspoons are in a cubic parsec. That could be > handy to know some day. > > https://www.google.com/search?&q=teaspoons+in+cubic+parsec > Shame on you, Bruce, that would take the outout of Hoover Dam a few centuries to calculate, not to mention there aren't enough digits on all this planets monitors to display it without using googles worth of digits in +ee notation.
I do have to admire that though, beats the daylights out of furlongs per fortnight at C speed. ;-) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
