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From: rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Rainer Thonnes)
Subject: Re: New IEC proposal: 1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes
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In article <32D54844.44D7@lonnds.ml.com>,
Julian Pardoe <pardoej@lonnds.ml.com> writes:
> Geoff Butler wrote:
> > [1] furlong/lunar mass/fortnight, since discredited when somebody
> > started chipping bits off the moon.
> 
> My maths teacher was vey fond of the derived unit acres/year -- it
> has somthing to do with springs or strings I think.

Careful!  Is the year really a preferred unit in the flf system?
Preferred derivation tends to involve integer multiples.

But I do like the furlong per fortnight, described here or on some
other group a while back by someone who may well have been Geoff Butler.
It's almost exactly equal to 1cm/min, and was described as the speed
of the tip of the minute hand on a typical wall clock.
