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>Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 19:39:21 -0500
>From: George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com>
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> If I remember correctly, the error here was due to confusion of units.
>Eratosthenes had determined the earth's circumference ~ 250 BC. & expressed it in stadia
>- - but then one needs to know which stadium he used as a unit. Kind of like "What's a
>cubit?" or an imperial & a real gallon. (That's to see if Michael is reading
>carefully.)
> Shalom,
> George
>
Indeed. Or a lb (force) and a newton. Such a pity that JPL and Lockheed Martin failed to
see eye-to-eye on that!
/Gary
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