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From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
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On Tuesday 08 January 2002 15:24, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> > And different length for sea and land 'miles'. Very natural...
>
> nautical miles are defined as 1852 meters, the exact length of one second
> of longitude at the equator :)
>
>  Kelsey Hudson                                           khudson@ctica.com
>  Software Engineer
>  Compendium Technologies, Inc                               (619) 725-0771
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


And, of course, the etymology of the word "knots" refers to the fact
that before modern spedometers and GPS tools, ships would gauge
their speed by letting a rope freely drag out of the stern of the ship
and would measure the number of equally spaced "knots" in the rope
that had rolled off the ship during the period of one hour.

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timothy.covell@ashavan.org.
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