[plug] furlongs/fortnight

[levsky at rave.iinet.net.au]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:47:51PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> > $ units
> > 1311 units, 63 prefixes
> 
> Hey thanks Leon! Long after I have forgotten that amusing story, I will 
> know about that great little program. Why havnt I heard of it before?
> 
> And finally we can know:
> 
>   % units
>   You have: furlongs/fortnight
>   You want: metres/second
> 	* 0.00016630986
> 	/ 6012.8727
> 
> There you go, its about 1/6 mm/sec. I hope NASA is using this now :-)
> 

One attoparsec/microfortnight is approximately one inch/sec.

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