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Post #76,370
by a6l6e6x
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1/23/03 1:23:52 PM
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New Not in my education,
In college we once used [link|http://www.jardine-engineering.com/written/furlong1.html|furlongs per fortnight]. We also use jiffies. A jiffy is 1/60 of a second being one cycle of the local electric power.

So there! :)
Alex
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Post #76,372
by deSitter
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1/23/03 1:28:03 PM
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New Jiffy
This IIRC is also used to measure the time it takes light to cross a hydrogen atom (more precisely, 1 Bohr radius).

Wonder if our nose-up-his-camera-tracked-ass Brit got that info in his superiour education?
-drl
Post #76,374
by hnick
1/23/03 1:30:22 PM
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New Thought that was a 'shake'
Post #76,377
by deSitter
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1/23/03 1:38:08 PM
1/23/03 1:42:26 PM
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New Conflicting defs
A quick look also has a jiffy = 1 cm / speed of light and 1 Planck Length/speed of light. Never heard of a shake.

According to this:

[link|http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictS.html|http://www.unc.edu/~.../units/dictS.html]

..a shake is 10 nanoseconds, about 10 feet.
-drl
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Post #76,393
by pwhysall
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1/23/03 2:04:43 PM
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New No...
but I can spell "superior".

I must say, I don't measure an awful lot of hydrogen atoms these days.

Must have slipped my mind.

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