At 05:15 PM 7/6/01, you wrote:
>It look like a confusion between a comma and a period.
No, that wouldn't make it work, as 1215 ft = 370.3 m (or 370,332 m,
depending on your preference).
However, 3.65 m does equal 12 ft, and 4.5 m = 15 feet, so I guess the
original message fell victim to the Great Hyphen-Eating Monster that lives
in cyberspace . . .
-- Ronn! :)
>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! :)
> >
> >
> >
