From: Christoph Paeper <christoph.paeper@nurfuerspam.de>
Subject: Gee Pee (was: decimal separator (international?)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:21:10 +0200
Date: 2004-10-29T16:21:10+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <opsgmx5kbyb8p244@crissov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: clt951$rg5$2@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk
Markus Kuhn <n04W44+mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk>:
>
> Gigapounds and teradollars seem perfectly acceptable solutions
By the way, I've watched the second episode of the new Battlestar
Galactica series yesterday. Someone gave their food demand (per week and
5e4 people) in ton(ne)s, but water in "gee pees"---was that an invented
unit or really Gigapounds (or my bad ears)?
--
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that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least
suited to do it. To summarize the summary: Anyone capable of getting themselves
made President should by no means be allowed to do the job. To summarize the
summary of the summary: People are a problem."
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2004-10-22 10:20 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-22 13:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-22 16:20 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-22 19:29 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-22 20:45 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-23 18:54 ` Chris Kaese
2004-10-25 10:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-29 9:52 ` Stefan L�rchner
2004-10-29 9:59 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-29 10:23 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 11:22 ` Markus Kuhn
2004-10-29 12:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-29 13:43 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-29 13:55 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 15:05 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-29 15:29 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-30 12:15 ` Binary prefixes in Google's calculator Markus Kuhn
2004-10-30 14:23 ` Binary prefixes and decimal separators " Björn Persson
2004-10-29 12:58 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 14:41 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-29 15:15 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 15:48 ` Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 16:31 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 19:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-11-01 10:14 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-11-01 18:53 ` Octal number system Andrew Nowicki
2004-11-01 21:47 ` Björn Persson
2004-11-02 1:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-29 16:09 ` decimal separator (international? Andreas Prilop
2004-10-30 9:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-29 14:21 ` Christoph Paeper [this message]
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