From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19812cdb56d31fbd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-07 08:31:59 PST Path: swrinde!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!paladin.american.edu!auvm!PSAVAX.PWFL.COM!CONDIC Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 11:19:08 EST Sender: Ada programming language From: CONDIC@PSAVAX.PWFL.COM Subject: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Date: 1995-02-07T11:19:08-05:00 List-Id: From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93 Subject: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Original_To: PROFS%"SMTP@PWAGPDB" Original_cc: CONDIC Keith Thompson 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 Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 407.796.8997 M/S 731-93 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM P.O. Box 109600 Internet: MDCONDIC@AOL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 =============================================================================== "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957. ===============================================================================