To be precise, it's 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds.

As a teenager, I set myself the challenge of calculating that in my head. It
took several minutes, but I succeeded.

Although it's fairly useless trivia, I've never forgotten it.

Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Barbara and/or Bill Hooper
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 17:45
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:15828] Re: 200 L drum


> James Frysinger wrote in 05775:
>
>> A few megaseconds ago, when we were discussing ...

Jim, did you really mean to write "megaseconds". One megasecond is 12 days.
a few would be a couple weeks ago.

Regards,
Bill Hooper

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