RE: MI miles and kilometres

2000-05-24 Thread Stokes Jonathan
Rob you may be right there. the only PC we have round here capable of running it appears to have pedals on it. (?) ;-) -Original Message- From: Rob Batenburg (Robert Batenburg) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 May 2000 21:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI miles and kilometres

RE: MI miles and kilometres

2000-05-24 Thread AYoung
Title: RE: MI miles and kilometres 3071.2555 cubits = 320 rods, poles or perches = 80 chains Sorry, just had to get my two pen'orth in . Andrew Young Durham City -Original Message- From: Rob Batenburg (Robert Batenburg) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 May 2000 21:28

RE: MI miles and kilometres

2000-05-24 Thread Stephen Baig
I thought kids were measured in decibels. Stephen Baig, father of two At 02:49 PM 23-05-00 -0400, you wrote: An interesting addendum to the original question about whether miles or kilometers are used in Puerto Rico...the correct answer is...BOTH. Distances are always expressed in

RE: MI miles and kilometres

2000-05-23 Thread Tim Warman
Mick, Oh please. Tim _ Tim Warman Geologist GIS Specialist Richard C. Slade Associates North Hollywood, CA (818) 506-0418 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mick Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 3:01 AM To: [EMAIL

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2000-05-23 Thread Lavoie, Claude
- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: 23 mai 2000 13:42 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: RE: MI miles and kilometres 1760. But seriously, my favourite measure is the furlong. Tony Peluso Economic Studies and Policy Analysis Division / Division des études économiques et de l'analyse

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2000-05-23 Thread Stokes Jonathan
: MI miles and kilometres Mick, Oh please. Tim _ Tim Warman Geologist GIS Specialist Richard C. Slade Associates North Hollywood, CA (818) 506-0418 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mick Sent: Tuesday, May 23

RE: MI miles and kilometres

2000-05-23 Thread Peluso . Tony
Subject:RE: MI miles and kilometres yeah miles one thousand and ??? how many yards first one to answer gets a genuine copy of mapinfo 1.0 that i have kicking around. complete with REAL floppy disks!! -Original Message- From: Tim

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2000-05-23 Thread Laura Piazza
:19 PM To: 'Tim Warman'; Mapinfo-L Subject:RE: MI miles and kilometres yeah miles one thousand and ??? how many yards first one to answer gets a genuine copy of mapinfo 1.0 that i have kicking around. complete with REAL floppy

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2000-05-23 Thread John Haynes
An interesting addendum to the original question about whether miles or kilometers are used in Puerto Rico...the correct answer is...BOTH. Distances are always expressed in kilometers but speed limits are expressed in MPH. This was done after painful experience determined that many PR

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2000-05-23 Thread Stephen R. Riese
Message text written by "Lavoie, Claude" What about this unit of measure the MIT students used to measure a bridge over the Charles River in Boston, Mass. (unit corresponding to the height of a fellow student)? Wasn't that the "Smoot?" Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2000-05-23 Thread Tim Rood
Cubits. Furlongs. All good. Mine, as the name suggests, is the rood. Tim Rood -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL

RE: MI miles and kilometres

2000-05-23 Thread Rob Batenburg (Robert Batenburg)
1 mile = 1760 yards = 1.6093 kilometres = 3071.2555 cubits (may be useful as MapInfo 1.0 probably uses cubits as the default unit of measurement ... ) :-) Rob Batenburg GIS / Data Management Specialist Integrated Pest Management Section Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre Agassiz, British

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2000-05-23 Thread Bill Thoen
Ah yes... the "Smoot!" One night a frat required its new pledge class to measure the MIT bridge using Mr Smoot's body. I forget how many Smoots the bridge is, but every year the new pledge class has to repaint the smootmarks. Last time I walked over the Charles to Cambridge they were still

Re: MI miles and kilometres

2000-05-23 Thread Tim Rood
I haven't seen it, but my father, an MIT alum, said on the Beantown side of the bridge there's a sign (or was in the 40s) that says "___ to Hell." The _ is some sort of linear units. Could it be "smoots?" I kind of remember something prosaic like "One mile to Hell," but any town

Re: MI miles and kilometres

2000-05-23 Thread John Haynes
ood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bill Thoen [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 6:51 PM Subject: Re: MI miles and kilometres I haven't seen it, but my father, an MIT alum, said on the Beantown side of the bridge there's a sign (or was in the 40s) that says "