www.onlineconversion.com has lots of interesting conversions available...

for example, did you know that 1 bamboo = 492.3076923 bee spaces

or that 1 fist = 5.2493438 fingerbreadths (handy!)

and that 1 gigaparsec =
2,468,542,400,000,000,512,144,840,416,808.4685424e+30 gnat's eyes


Very handy for relevant units of measurement too :)

Do I dare change the subject line?? Naaah

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David VanHorn [SMTP:dvanhorn@CEDAR.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:38 AM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [OT] My Time Capsule
>
> At 12:12 PM 11/13/2003 +1300, Russell McMahon wrote:
>
> >> I can't picture a hectare at all.
> >
> >It's 100 ares :-)
>
> That explains it! :)
>
> At one time, I did an include file for Povray, for the internet movie
> project, because there was so much dissention over what units to use.
>
> It took every unit of length I could find, and converted them all to the
> same scale, so an object that was (3*foot) was properly scaled to an
> object of (1.61 * cubit) or many other more obscure measurements.
>
> I went from Angstrom to Light year, if I remember right..
>
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