Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Why Google is Great WAS Computer question
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 14:04:11 -0700
References: <4E800B72-DD86-11D7-B803-000393AC0E1A@johnbrownlow.com>
 
At 4:44 PM -0400 9/2/03, Johnny Deadman wrote:
>E=MC**2 I assume.
>
>On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 04:29 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:
>
>>Converting pounds to ergs is a bit iffy.....
>--

Pounds generally being a unit of weight, not mass. One pound on the 
moon has a lot more ergs in it.

In some circumstances pounds are used as units of mass, but that is 
less common.

Therefore 'iffy', not 'outright nonsense'.   :-)

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