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From: marek@iuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: rate of speed
Message-ID: <395@iuvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-May-83 17:45:49 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 29 17:45:49 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jun-83 08:02:45 EDT
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Everybody who's had a physics course from 7th grade on up should know that...

   "rate of speed"  =  acceleration  (2nd derivative of distance w.r.t. time)

...though I doubt that all utterers of "rate of speed" mean precisely that.

			Yours for Precision in Language,

			Marek Lugowski, Indiana University CS Dept.
			...!puree!iuvax!marek