From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2002-12-12T10:23:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Proper Type for Dollar Amount

> But perhaps this is old now, in fact I used to believe that it was
> defined in terms of the time an electromagnetic wave takes to travel
> 299,792,458m in a vacuum :-)

Ha!
This would make some interesting definitions:

Speed of light (c): 299,792,458 meters per second.

Meter (m):  1/299,792,458th of the distance that light travels in 1
            second.

Second (s): The time that light takes to travel 299,792,458 meters.

:-)

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137

>
> BTW, the metric system RULEZ! }:->
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> http://www.matsushita.co.jp/corp/timecapsule/record/4_10.html
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> The proof, that's probably what matz uses :-)
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