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To: blam

I wish they'd use real numbers when reporting this stuff.


4 posted on 06/17/2005 8:43:22 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Hank Rearden

I have two meters on the back of my house, one electric and one gas. They are about 8 inches across. so doing the math tells me the 27 meter wave was about 18 feet.


7 posted on 06/17/2005 8:48:01 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Hank Rearden

27.7 meters equals 0.138 furlongs


8 posted on 06/17/2005 8:48:20 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Hank Rearden
For those unable to think in metric too
10 posted on 06/17/2005 8:49:21 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
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To: Hank Rearden

27 meters --- approximately 71 feet.


14 posted on 06/17/2005 8:51:57 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: Hank Rearden; blam
I wish they'd use real numbers when reporting this stuff.

They didn't use imaginary numbers in this report.

21 posted on 06/17/2005 8:54:41 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
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To: Hank Rearden
I wish they'd use real numbers when reporting this stuff.

Real numbers? What do you mean?

53 posted on 06/17/2005 9:18:36 AM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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To: Hank Rearden
I wish they'd use real numbers when reporting this stuff.

My very first thought also...

99 posted on 07/10/2005 6:31:19 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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