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Re: Compression Tests

To: KVacek@aol.com
Subject: Re: Compression Tests
From: captainzoso@juno.com (Captain Page)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 13:49:10 EDT
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
References: <961013110558_1413569605@emout01.mail.aol.com>
Karl-

No problem...your intent/meaning was visible.

> >A 10:1 compression ratio thus should yield (14.8 X 10)-14.8  or 
>about 
> >13.3
> >PSI
> 
> You mean 133 psi not 13.3 psi :)
>  >>
>
>Oh, this is just swell.  I act like Mr. Smarty Pants, sending a 
>nit-picking
>post correcting Barry's formula, and I can't get the decimal point 
>right.
> You can see that my work improved greatly in the mid-1970's with the 
>advent
>of the cheap calculator.  I still have all of my slide rules though, 
>ready
>for those occasions when I don't care if I get the order of magnitude
>right...
>
>-Karl
>

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