do you guys help newbies??

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

John Hunter fed this fish to the penguins on Wednesday 27 November 2002 
01:35 pm:

>>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Hards <bhards at bigpond.net.au> writes:
> 
>     Brad> How far is a mile? How much is a gallon?
> 
> A mile is approx 1.7048275260088487e-13 light years.
>
        According to my HP 48SX, it is 1.70111428361E-13 light years.
(though it also seems to have MiUS -- 1.70111768584E-13).

        One mile is also 1.609344E18 Fermi
 
> A gallon is a half a peck.
>
        Isn't a peck a "dry" measure?
 
> The units aren't terribly important for this problem.

        Other than the strange aspect that metric users tend to reverse the 
nature of the units... Rather than distance/volume I often saw 
volume/distance (litres/km for instance)

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