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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:28:46 +0100
Subject: Re: .split() Qeustion
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> wrote:
> On 15 August 2013 16:43, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A mole is as much a number (6e23) as the light year is a number (9.5e15).
>
> A mole is a number. A light year is a unit.

A mole is an amount of something. Avogadro's Number is a number, which
is what I was hinting at :)

ChrisA