From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 14:19:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFB437BC7F for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:19:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA58796; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:18:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:18:07 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: Jamie Bowden Cc: Mark Ovens , Paul Richards , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Useful Metric Conversions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Jamie, On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jamie Bowden wrote: > How many people could tell you the english unit of mass? It's the > slug for those who are wondering. Not always - pound is also sometimes used as a english unit of mass. Engineers.... you probably need to know this if you work at Lockheed. (and no I won't explain that reference - go read about various Mars probes from NASA the last few years). :-) Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message