David wrote: > And you got this information where?
Ooops. My memory is not as good as I thunk. The last ship I drove was a destroyer in 1977. As I now recall, we used 2000 yards as a rough measure of miles. I got myself confused with statute miles. The rest were used as rounded off units. We always figured 10 cables to the nautical mile, which, I believe, was standard in naval use at least. -- burns _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
