On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:56:50 -0500, Amos Keag
wrote:

Owen Duffy wrote:

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Give some people 25.4mm and they will take 16,609.344m! (Lost
something in the translation I suspect!)

Owen
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Hmmm ... 16,609.344m = 10 miles does it not??

No, it is not. The mistake is the repeated 6, it should have been
1,609.344m.

Apologies... Owen
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