Vitaliy wrote:
>> By the way, there's a rather simple way to mentally convert speeds to
>> furlongs/fortnight when you want to annoy people with abscure units.
>> Anyone
>> know the trick or want to guess?
>
> Why strain the brain when there's Google?

The point was a conversion trick you could do in your head to amaze or annoy
your friends.

> 1 furlong/fortnight = 1 cm/min.

Yup, that's the one.  It's remarkably close considering these units were not
defined with each other in mind.


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