At 08:34 AM 8/20/01, Alberto "let's start a units flame war!" Monteiro wrote:
>Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> >
> > "One-two-billionth of a light minute."
> >
>Please avoid the use of the ambiguous number "billion",
>that should be 10^12 but is misused by astrologers as
>10^9


** grumble picky $%#@@^&*!! grumble **


0.3 femtoparsec, then.


** grumble $%#@@^&*!! grumble ** . . .


--Ronn! :)

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