Re: [OM] OT, Metric stuff

[John A. Lind]

At 22:56 3/3/00 , George Sears pondered:
>For the Genius Chaps, Speed of light was 186,000 miles per second. Whats it
>changing to now?
approx. 299,792,458.012 meters per second (in vacuo)
[1988 Astronomical Almanac; Handbook of Mathematical Functions, AMS 55]

>And last but not least... The whole nine yards!
The etymology for this phrase is from W.W.II fighter aircraft .50 caliber
machine gun belts which were 27 feet long.  When a pilot used the term "the
whole nine yards" it referred to having used his entire load of ammunition.

-- John

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