I thought kids were measured in decibels.
Stephen Baig, father of two
At 02:49 PM 23-05-00 -0400, you wrote:
>
> An interesting addendum to the original question about whether miles or
> kilometers are used in Puerto Rico...the correct answer is...BOTH.
>
> Distances are always expressed in
Title: RE: MI miles and kilometres
3071.2555 cubits = 320 rods, poles or perches = 80 chains
Sorry, just had to get my two pen'orth in .
Andrew Young
Durham City
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Rob
you may be right there. the only PC we have round here capable of
running it appears to have pedals on it. (?)
;-)
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>I haven't seen it, but my father, an MIT alum, said on the Beantown side of
the
>br
I haven't seen it, but my father, an MIT alum, said on the Beantown side of the
bridge there's a sign (or was in the 40s) that says "___ to Hell." The
_ is some sort of linear units. Could it be "smoots?" I kind of remember
something prosaic like "One mile to Hell," but any town where
Ah yes... the "Smoot!" One night a frat required its new pledge
class to measure the MIT bridge using Mr Smoot's body. I forget
how many Smoots the bridge is, but every year the new pledge
class has to repaint the smootmarks. Last time I walked over the
Charles to Cambridge they were still freshly
1 mile = 1760 yards = 1.6093 kilometres = 3071.2555 cubits
(may be useful as MapInfo 1.0 probably uses cubits as the default unit of measurement
... )
:-)
Rob Batenburg
GIS / Data Management Specialist
Integrated Pest Management Section
Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre
Agassiz, British Colu
Cubits. Furlongs. All good. Mine, as the name suggests, is the rood.
Tim Rood
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Message text written by "Lavoie, Claude"
>What about this unit of measure the MIT students used to measure a bridge
over the Charles River in Boston, Mass. (unit corresponding to the height
of
a fellow student)?<
Wasn't that the "Smoot?"
Steve
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An interesting addendum to the original question about
whether miles or kilometers are used in Puerto Rico...the correct answer
is...BOTH.
Distances are always expressed in kilometers but speed limits are expressed
in MPH. This was done after painful experience determined that many PR
dr
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> From: Stokes Jonathan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: May 23, 2000 12:19 PM
> To: 'Tim Warman'; Mapinfo-L
> Subject:RE: MI miles and kilometres
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> yeah miles
>
> one thousand and ??? how
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Date: 23 mai 2000 13:42
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Objet: RE: MI miles and kilometres
1760.
But seriously, my favourite measure is the furlong.
Tony Peluso
Economic Studies and Policy Analysis Division / Division des études
économiques et de
x27;Tim Warman'; Mapinfo-L
Subject:RE: MI miles and kilometres
yeah miles
one thousand and ??? how many yards
first one to answer gets a genuine copy of mapinfo 1.0 that i have
kicking around. complete with REAL floppy disks!!
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: MI miles and kilometres
Mick,
Oh please.
Tim
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Richard C. Slade & Associates
North Hollywood, CA
(818) 506-0418
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Mick,
Oh please.
Tim
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Richard C. Slade & Associates
North Hollywood, CA
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