From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 15:49:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from neodymium.btinternet.com (neodymium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4015237BA9B for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:49:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.177.18] (helo=parish.my.domain) by neodymium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12Vk0v-0004bI-00; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:49:13 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01200; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:49:22 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:49:21 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Brett Taylor Cc: Jamie Bowden , Paul Richards , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Useful Metric Conversions Message-ID: <20000316234921.E248@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brett@peloton.runet.edu on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 05:18:07PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 05:18:07PM -0500, Brett Taylor wrote: > 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. > IOW there's pounds and pounds-force (or poundals). > (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 -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message