Jack Diederich wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:36:42PM -0500, rbt wrote: > >>Alex Martelli wrote: >> >>>I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he >>>sits about 15 meters away from me;-). >> >>For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet. > > > Right, so that is about three and a half stone?
Stone is a measure of weight, not distance. (14 pounds, ~6.35 kg) 15 meters (150 decimeter, 1500 cm, etc ...) 590 inches 49 feet 16 yards 0.0093 miles 0.008 nautical miles 3 rods 0.075 furlongs 1800 barleycorns 147.63 hands 66 spans 33 cubits 13 ells 8.2 fathoms 75 links 0.75 chains 0.0027 leauges 0.03 li 0.081 stadia 4.8e-16 parsecs 1e-10 astronomical units 5e-8 lightseconds 2.8e11 Bohr radiuses 9.2e35 Plank lenghts and probably most appropriately (being dutch): 1.5 roede In other words "a stone's throw away". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
