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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Although loss of precision might give you the
> right answer anyway. :-)

There aren't that many digits in the speed of light.  Unless we're
talking about a very, very slow-moving automobile.