Guido at Google

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:14:16 -0600 in comp.lang.python, Rocco Moretti
<roccomoretti at hotpop.com> wrote:

[...]
>15 meters (150 decimeter, 1500 cm, etc ...)
>590 inches
>49 feet
>16 yards
>0.0093 miles
>0.008 nautical miles
>3 rods
>0.075 furlongs
>1800 barleycorns
>147.63 hands
>66 spans
>33 cubits
>13 ells
>8.2 fathoms
>75 links
>0.75 chains
>0.0027 leauges
>0.03 li
>0.081 stadia
>4.8e-16 parsecs
>1e-10 astronomical units
>5e-8 lightseconds
>2.8e11 Bohr radiuses
>9.2e35 Plank lenghts
>
>and probably most appropriately (being dutch):
>
>1.5 roede
>
>In other words "a stone's throw away".

You forgot 

8.81419673 smoots

Regards,

                                        -=Dave

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