Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!davidl From: davidl@orca.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Funny Units (correction) Message-ID: <1069@orca.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 21:53:08 EDT Article-I.D.: orca.1069 Posted: Mon Sep 24 21:53:08 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 04:40:00 EDT Sender: davidl@orca.UUCP Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 37 As several people have taken pains to point out, a Cubic Attoparsec is nowhere near a cup. In fact, it's almost ten times too small... or rather, eight times: % units you have: inch ! just to show how the program works you want: cm * 2.540000e+00 ! 2.54 cm per inch / 3.937008e-01 ! 0.3937008 inch per cm you have: attoparsec you want: cm * 3.085678e+00 ! 3.085678 cm per attoparsec / 3.240779e-01 ! 0.3240779 attoparsec per cm you have: cm3 you want: floz * 3.381402e-02 ! 0.03381402 fluid oz per cubic cm / 2.957353e+01 ! 29.57353 cubic cm per fluid oz you have: ^D % dc 3.085678 3 ^ p ! cube cm/attoparsec 29.380001 ! 29.380001 cm3 per attoparsec3 0.03381402 * p ! multiply by floz/cm3 .99345594 ! 0.99345594 attoparsec3/floz ^D % This demonstrates that a Cubic Attoparsec is actually 0.99345594 Fluid Ounce. That's pretty darn close, although not for the units declared earlier. However, I promise to use my calculator rather than my memory the next time I post to net.jokes. Thanks to Bill Pfeifer (azure!billp) for informing me of the existence of the units program. David D. Levine (...decvax!tektronix!tekecs!davidl) [UUCP] (tekecs!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay.csnet) [ARPA]