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At 07:59 AM 10/8/97 EDT, Thomas Wayburn wrote:Touche! Good, very good. Regards / Tom
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But, the
record for me was a book of thermophysical properties of a couple of
hundred pages and a price tag of $2500. ( I can't end the
sentence with an exclamation point as you might suppose I mean 2500!,a
truly astronomical number that might induce fainting spells.)
As an astronomer, I must take offense. We refer to such numbers as
"governmental" :)
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