Re: Yahoo archive truncated

Hi,

What about nanocenturies and attoparsec (or was it femto?)


Tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> "Andy Stoffel" <Andrew.Stoffel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> is claimed by the authorities to 
> have written:
> 
> > More amusing is the related VMS system value: uFortnights
> >
> I'm not sure how useful micro-fortnights are, but just for grins we (in
> this we refers to the group of people I was at Imperial COllege with)
> used to work in micro-furlongs and milli-fortnights. A micro-furlong is
> a quite useful unit, being about 1/5th of a millimeter or 1/125th of an
> inch and a milli-fortnight is a very reasonable 20 minutes. I'm
> delighted to see the use of a similar unit so well documented.
> 
> tim
> 
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