Subject: Re: double line bug & nautical miles<br/>
Date: Nov 26, 2001 @ 00:27<br/>
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-650380134">i knew that<br/>
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hey cant you guys take a joke<br/>
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but the serious part <br/>
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& excuse me for being serious again<br/>
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is that the use of 5 ninths as a fraction was commonplace & not the showstopper i imagined grant was making it out to be when he said aargh or whatever it was he said a few messages back<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@b...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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&gt; Michael: <br/>
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&gt; &gt; & they were already routinely using 5 ninths too for converting<br/>
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&gt; fahrenheit to centigrade<br/>
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&gt; That one really is *exactly* 5/9ths: 100 centigrade spans 180<br/>
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&gt; fahrenheit from freezing to boiling. That, and the spare 32F below<br/>
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&gt; freezing, is what makes the pleasing equality -40C = -40F.<br/>
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&gt; Grant </span></blockquote></div>