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RE: Back To The Future - was: non-integers

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Subject: RE: Back To The Future - was: non-integers
From: Mark Noeltner <mark@buffalochips.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:00:59 -0500
Yeah, Either Doc Brown couldn't pronounce Giga, or he was using some
heretofore unknown prefix, the Jiga. I figure Jiga is a Really, Really Big
Number.  :)

Mark N
owner of an '81 DeLorean - anybody know where I can get a Flux Capacitor
and a Mr Fusion?

>Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:18:11 -0400
>From: Scott Knight <scott@scottknight.com>
>Subject: Re: non-integers
>
>I can't believe I am contributing to this.
>
>> 88 mph =  speed at which you'll see some serious sh*t, provided the flux
>> capacitor is powered up and you have 1.21 GW of electricity available.
>
>Doesn't G stand for Giga, as in Trillion?  I could swear that you
>actually need 1.21 Jigawatts, which would be something more on the order
>of a Really Big Number.  Big would be an understatement.
>
>Later dates.
>- -- 
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