It look like a confusion between a comma and a period.
God knows how the rest of the world got it all confused, since everyone
knows that a comma denotes the thousandth place, and and period is a
decimal point. ;->
Nerd From Hell
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronn Blankenship
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Fwd: Refdesk Fact of the Day: King Cobra
>
>
> This is how this appeared in my mailbox.
>
>
> >From: "Refdesk Fact of the Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Refdesk Fact of the Day: King Cobra
> >Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 12:05:46 -0700
> >
> >The longest venomous snake is the king cobra (Ophiophagus
> hannah), also
> >called the hamadryad. It is 3.654.5 m. (1215 ft.) in length,
> and is found
> >in India and southeast Asia.
>
>
> Could that perhaps be "3.65�4.5 m. (12�15 ft.)"? The prospect of a
> quarter-mile-long snake, venomous or not, disturbs me somewhat . . .
>
>
> BTW, the king cobra that has been on the loose near here
> since escaping
> from its cage at an exotic reptile collector's home over two
> weeks ago is,
> as of last night at least, still at large. However, the news reports
> describe it as a more reasonable 5 feet (around 1.5 m) in length . . .
>
>
> -- Ronn! :)
>
>
>
