On Sep 14, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

>>> there's a rather simple way to mentally convert speeds to
>>> furlongs/fortnight when you want to annoy people with abscure units.
>>
>> I know one furlong per fortnight is pretty close to 1cm/minute

(Trying to remember if cm/minute was ever a useful unit for anything.)

BillW

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