"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:40:20 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm,
Joseph Gwinn quickly quoth:

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"azotic" wrote:

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On Aug 29, 8:42 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:

The Trident missile has a 4000 nm range.

Why did our military buy a missile with a 4000 nanometer range ?

He surely meant to remind you and Ed that a nanometer is one billionth
of a meter. (To those of you in Rio Linda, the nm is _much_ smaller
than a yard.)

That was a misattribution to me. A long-time sailor, I recognize a nautical
mile and wasn't questioning it.

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Ed Huntress