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Mark Jerde (in WmCih.3330$Iy5.1541@trnddc01) said:

| "J. Clarke" wrote in message
| ...
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|| You haven't discovered the google calculator? Go to google and
|| try this search: "14.3 foot pounds in newton meters". Don't
|| include the quotation marks. I've found very few units that it
|| won't convert.
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| Huh, I'm impressed. Whoda thunk they covered this one?
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| 14.3 (inches per second) = 1.14621067 W 10**20 angstroms per
| millenium
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http://www.google.com/search?&q=14.3...n+angstroms+pe
r+millenium
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| Maybe density, in AMUs per cubic parsec?

Or if you'd like to solve physics problems in user-friendly units, you
can ask for "c in furlongs per fortnight" (the speed of light =
1.8026175 × 1012 furlongs per fortnight.)

Watch out for rounding errors eg

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto