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!hplabs!tektronix!orca!davidl From: davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Units of measure Message-ID: <1058@orca.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 12:55:25 EDT Article-I.D.: orca.1058 Posted: Thu Sep 20 12:55:25 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 01:20:19 EDT References: <1120@eosp1.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 8 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]