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 Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!aioe.org!nospam From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Range excluding 0.0 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:36:26 -0400 Organization: The Wasteland Message-ID: References: <6f1ce89e-7889-4d58-b0f8-1945727f5149@f33g2000vbm.googlegroups.com> <1j57hiw.vmezw81qexbi6N%csampson@inetworld.net> <1t74k6wjtgo78.1b6d2g7uwt230$.dlg@40tude.net> <7_KdnXzM3cepeAfXnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d@earthlink.com> <14d916mebuseu$.59fjaud14sw7.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: LQJtZWzu+iKlBROuDg+IUg.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:nMOL7xKSMt/45s/RNdftiU9WGnU= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8083 Date: 2009-08-31T20:36:26-04:00 List-Id: In article , Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:58:05 -0400, "John B. Matthews" > 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. :-) -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com