From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3FDCE677.6000006@nospam.com> From: bs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] /lib/units References: <200312142156.hBELuUl22380@augusta.math.psu.edu> <200312142200.hBEM0xl22479@augusta.math.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200312142200.hBEM0xl22479@augusta.math.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:38:47 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a2aa3242-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Dan Cross wrote: > Dan Cross writes: > >>something like 1/10000 the distance from the equator to the north pole > > ^^^^^^^ > > Hmm; on second thought, one had better add a few zeros in there somewhere. > > - Dan C. > It is supposed to be 1 ten millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole. They got that wrong too...