Re: conplaneteering
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 14, 2005, 13:05 |
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:01:09AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:29:46 +0100, Carsten Becker
> <naranoieati@...> wrote:
> > κ Virgo[1]
>
> κ Virginis?
>
> > a radius of 18.38x our sun and a rotation period of
> > 53,000 days (cf. 25,400 days).
>
> Jörg said our sun has a rotation period of "twenty-something days",
> yet you say it's twenty-five *thousand* days?
It's definitely on the order of 25 days, not 25k.
> At first I thought that might be a decimal comma, but you wrote
> "18.38x" and not "18,38x".
I think it was just a case of inconsistently translating from decimal
comma to decimal point for the benefit of the intended audience.