I must say that this is a whole lot more irrelevant that the GPS conversions
that were being conducted a few weeks ago! Please take this conversation
somewhere else.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 9:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: MI The Empire versus the metric
I Gallon (4 quarts) is equal to 8 pints which (by an illogical twist of your
own equation) is equal to eight miles. The cubed root of this is 2 miles
(126,720 inches)- and if you could find a cubic container whose sides are
that big it would be precisely big enough to hold the exact number of smoots
required to measure the MIT bridge.
Richard Burkmar
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From: E.O.Kofod [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 24 May 2000 13:44
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: MI The Empire versus the metric
Ladies and Gentlemen of the vanishing empires,
It may be a positive sign that bridges are measured in how many
drunken students can lie in one row on them or that the definition
of a mile - as I have been told by a consumer of real ale - is as
far as a man can walk before getting thirsty.
However I will not succumb to that system till one of you tell me
how to calculate the measurements in inches of a cubic container
containing one empirical gallon of ale - without using the metric
system in the process!
I challenge all of you to do that.
Eivind O. Kofod
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