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On 03/07/2012 07:09, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On 03 Jul 2012 04:11:22 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
>> One of my favourites is the league, which in the Middle Ages was actually
>> defined as the distance that a man, or a horse, could walk in an hour.
>
> 	From the "Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac" [1992
> University Science Books], Table 15.15, the speed of light is
>
> 	1.80261750E12 furlongs/fortnight
>

+1 most useless piece of information garnered this week.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.