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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:08:44 -0800
From:      "Freddie Cash" <fcash@bigfoot.com>
To:        "Dr. Brain" <drbrain@toxic.magnesium.net>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Useful Metric Conversions
Message-ID:  <200003160709.XAA18340@ocis.ocis.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000315154859.A71662@toxic.magnesium.net>
References:  <200003152321.PAA31496@ocis.ocis.net>; from fcash@bigfoot.com on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:21:05PM -0800

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D'oh, you're right.  My bad.  Damn slide rule just doesn't work like it 
used to.  :)

Freddie

> Freddie Cash (fcash@bigfoot.com) wrote:
> 
> > <SNIP>
> > 
> > >   8 nickels = 2 paradigms
> > 
> > The rest are very useful, but isn't this supposed to be:
> > 	4 nickels = 2 paradigms  ??
> > 
> > I swear my slide rule says so.  Let me fish it out...
> 
> no:
> 
> 8 * 5 = 40
> 
> 2 * (2 * 10) = 40
> (two pair of dimes)
> 
> (caught me for a little bit also <g>)
> 
> -- 
> Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://segment7.net
> 
> "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything."
>  -- A. L.
> 


Reject complexity, embrace simplicity, and leave your
ego at the door.
          - Colonel Kernel


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