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To: Carl LaFong

I am really bad at math, but if I am correct now, that is 471,000 mph.
Could someone a little more talented at arithmetic please verify?


13 posted on 01/26/2006 6:40:33 PM PST by roostercogburn
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To: roostercogburn

Er...no ...I've only hit 87mph in the Previa (downhill).


14 posted on 01/26/2006 6:51:25 PM PST by Carl LaFong ("I take care of the place while the master is away")
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To: roostercogburn
469756.6213 MPH- You were pretty close, but it's way below light speed. 210,000 meters per second equates to 130.4879504 miles per second.

I canna' only give ya' impulse, Cap'n.

15 posted on 01/26/2006 6:54:12 PM PST by Sarajevo
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To: roostercogburn
I am really bad at math, but if I am correct now, that is 471,000 mph.
Could someone a little more talented at arithmetic please verify?

To four significant figures: 1,217,000 mph

16 posted on 01/26/2006 7:11:58 PM PST by stripes1776
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To: roostercogburn
I am really bad at math, but if I am correct now, that is 471,000 mph. Could someone a little more talented at arithmetic please verify?

Sorry for the wrong figures in the post. (It does make a difference what you put in the numerator and denomerator!) You are correct. 469,800 mph to 4 significant figures.

17 posted on 01/26/2006 7:18:11 PM PST by stripes1776
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To: roostercogburn
I am really bad at math, but if I am correct now, that is 471,000 mph. Could someone a little more talented at arithmetic please verify?

According to http://www.sciencemadesimple.net/length.php, the conversion would make it approximately 130.488 miles per second.
That would equal about 469757 miles per hour.
That's pretty close for being really bad at math.
21 posted on 01/26/2006 7:59:49 PM PST by FreedomOfExpression (Hangover: The wrath of grapes.)
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