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Re: Gravity and pi



Rondo,
Actually isn't millibarns on the same level?

Sam


-----Original Message-----
From: Rondo JEFFERY [mailto:RJEFFERY@WEBER.EDU]
Sent: Friday, November 13, 1998 3:08 PM
To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
Subject: Re: Gravity and pi


Samuel commented:

Rondo N. Jeffery
Physics Department
Weber State University
Ogden, UT 84408-2508

Samuel Held <Held@RHIP.PHYS.UTK.EDU> 11/13 9:47 AM >>>
<snip>

<Only astronomers are smart enough not to fall for all this prefix
<crap. Parsecs are perfectly good distance units.

to which the reply could be given, Oh yeah!? What about kiloparsecs
or megaparsecs? Or the Hubbel constant, which is usually given in
"(km/s)/Mpc" ? Talk about mixed units!

Rondo