Odd Meas. Units

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Tue Oct 20 01:41:07 1998

At 05:38 PM 19-10-98 -0400, Megan wrote:
>
>>> I used to know the speed of light in Furlongs per Fortnight.
>>
>>The attoparsec/microfortnight is remarkably close to the inch/second.
>>Quite useful for quoting tape speeds :-)
>
>IIRC, the GT40 lunar lander program had comments about measuring
>things in furlongs per fortnight. I'll have to check the source...

And of course there's a VMS sysgen parameter whose unit of measurement is
the micro-fortnight. Any VMS systems types out there remember what the
parameter is, and how long a micro-fortnight is :-)

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