Re: OT: Celestial maps
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 21:49 |
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On Jan 15, 2008 2:49 PM, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Mark's math appears to be off by a factor of a thousand
Yee-whups. And Charlie said that math is not *his* strong suit!
I actually do that - order-of-magnitude errors - rather a lot. So
often that my wife calls it "Markie math"... I should perhaps put a
disclaimer on any messages where I do calculations, though usually
Markie math only strikes when I'm doing quick mental stuff...
> - 38mm/yr for 1.8 million years adds up to 68.2 km or roughly 40 miles.
That makes more sense. Thanks for the correction.
I'll go back to linguistics now . . . (slink)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>