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To: dragnet2; UCANSEE2

dragnet2’s use of “Approximately” is a valid point.

The fellow I was initally responding to was off by 1000X - 3 orders of magnitude.

Just getting that corrected was all I was shooting for. To give him a better - more accurate - feel for what we were dealing with. Since he was so far off, I figured more precision than that would have been showing off a bit.

And telling him the value of c is 186,282.397051221 miles per second would have been downright smart-alecky, IMHO.

AND of course, the EXACT measurement is NOT in mph.

The speed of light is defined as precisely 299,792,458 meter per second.


23 posted on 11/21/2010 6:09:32 PM PST by muffaletaman
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To: muffaletaman
dragnet2’s use of “Approximately” is a valid point.

Why thank you.

24 posted on 11/21/2010 6:30:42 PM PST by dragnet2
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