Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99

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From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
Subject: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99
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Keith Thompson <kst@ALSYS.COM> writes:
>
>For anyone who wants to verify my results:
>    1 mile = 1609.344 meters
>    1 furlong = 1/8 mile
>    1 day = 86400 seconds
>    1 fortnight = 14 days
>
Your results may be correct, but may not be accurate. Are you
sure that 1 day = 86400 seconds? Isn't there some fractional part
which is why the cesium clocks have to have a leap-second every 3
months or so? (Could be wrong - someone with more science
background can correct me on this.)

And besides - the Earth's rotation around the Sun is continually
slowing down, so the definition of a year (and hence, a day,
etc.) is continually changing.

>
>Relevance to this newsgroup: the machine on which I ran "bc -l" also
>has several Ada compilers installed on it.
>
If you ever want to get a bunch of computer geeks started on an
irrelavency, throw out the speed-of-light v furlongs-per-fortnight
bit. There's some sort of irresistable pull for those in the
computing business. ;-)
>
>There must be some significance to the fact that there are 42 digits in
>the repeating sequence.
>
The meaning of life, the universe and everything. But what was
the question? :-)

Pax,
Marin

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