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From: davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Units of measure
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Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 12:55:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 20 12:55:25 1984
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Curiously enough, a Cubic Attoparsec is 1 cup to three decimal places.  I knew
a guy who brewed his own beer, and had labels printed with the contents
expressed in cubic attoparsecs.

Also, a femtoparsec is very close to 1 cubit.

David D. Levine  (...decvax!tektronix!tekecs!davidl)          [UUCP]
                 (tekecs!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay.csnet)  [ARPA]