Re: Range excluding 0.0

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article <iradnblskszGlgHXnZ2dnUVZ_oSdnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:58:05 -0400, "John B. Matthews"
> <nospam@nospam.invalid> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
> 
> > My present velocity, in the solar reference frame, is just under 2.7 
> > megafurlongs/fortnight. How do I convert left and right to metric when I 
> > cross the equator, bearing -pi/2? :-)
> 
> 	How many slugs of thrust?

Oh, I'm on foot; the force is some large number of poundals, I imagine, 
as I tend to plod. I thought slugs, like scruples, measured mass.

My claim above is based on rotational velocity; I completely ignored the 
larger component of velocity tangent to the Earth's orbit. Perhaps I am 
dizzy. :-)

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