Copy for group. Norm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Werling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Mattix, Animal Nation" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2001May01 10:52 Subject: Lake Victoria Cichlids > This appeared in the Atlanta Journal-constitution on April 29. > > If your raw data was in Imperial units as previously used by the British, > may I offer the following. > > The square root of 26 828 miles� is 163.793 to three places. The latter > multiplied by 1.609 equals 263.543 km , the length of one presumed side. > The 263.543 km squared equals 69 455 km�. > > It appears that you multiplied 26 828 by 1.6093 to get the 43174. > > Again assuming that the depth chart was based on the previously used > Imperial units, I offer the following conversions: > > 104 ft.=31.3 m > 110 ft.=33.5 m > 180 ft.=54.9 m > 210 ft.=64.0 m > > Au revoir, > > Norman >
