Hello All,
Please pardon the laconic text, but I'm e-mailing this from work
and I have to be brief. I just found an AP photo in the local
paper, whose caption uses "km" in contravention to the AP Stylebook.
I'm going to use this as evidence in a letter I'm composing,
to show that Americans
2000-11-26
You are correct. This is how the Guinness people have it worded. You might
want to contact them. Originally, they stated it as 2 MA/cm². Which could
mean they had a wire with a 1 cm² cross section and were able to pass 2 MA
through it. It wasn't explained any further, so it is
I am in the process of refuting the Almanac article point by point. One
of the statements made therein was:
"Maybe NASA aiming someone towards Mars, or the Ford Motor Company
designing do-dads for its cars, may find the metric system useful for
all the dividing they are doing, but most of us
This post reminded me of a very amusing event that occurred in one of the most recent
episodes of the blockbuster show, who wants to be a millionaire. In this episode the
following question was posed to the contestant: What's the approximate distance of a
league? The options were: 25 ft, 50
