On Jan 28, 2005, at 2:32 AM, Doug Franklin wrote:
One of the first "unit conversion" examples I had to do in high school was convert the speed of light (c) into furlongs per fortnight. :-)
Easy, just use the Google Calculator.
Go into Google and type: light speed in furlongs per fortnight
It can do some great stuff. It knows physics ("1 gram in joules"), and even time travel:
http://www.google.com/search?q=1.21+GW+%2F+88+mph
More info at http://www.google.com/help/calculator.html
Cheers,
- Dave (back in my day we had to use pocket calculators)
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
