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From: davidl@orca.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Funny Units (correction)
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 21:53:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 21:53:08 1984
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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]