Subject: double line bug & nautical miles
Date: Nov 24, 2001 @ 01:27
Author: michael donner (michael donner <orc@...>)
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happily i can report it now appears from here that everyone else at bp is
looking just as gigantesque & doubly spacious as i myself am & it is not
at all unpleasant so i say lets just keep bloating & gloating along like
this
in the absence of any objections m

>anton has identified the new growth glitch or glitz as the double line bug
>so i would like to see how far we can go without carriage returns & am
>thus experimentally addressing you all nonstop but for horizontal spaces
>& yikes so as to ease any accumulative tension would now adopt the
>double or triple ampersand say like this &&& to mean a full stop & rest
>&&& &&& let me also take this single continuous testing opportunity to
>report some progress in my quest for the truest possible nautical mile
>tho the received values continue to proliferate from exactly 6076 feet to
>well beyond 6077 ft for it does now appear that the most prestigious
>authorities agree only upon exactly 6076 feet & 1 tenth yes 6076point1
>period tho many others still variegate crazily into 4 decimal places &&&
>so i am content now to proceed with just this value into the wilds of
>trigonometry if indeed there is anyone here who can lead me 3nm west thru
>them from the mouth of the columbia to waorus m