Re: Measurement units (was: Re: [GZG] [FT] Cancon 2006
From: Ken Bywaters <argentnova@y...>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:38:32 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: Measurement units (was: Re: [GZG] [FT] Cancon 2006
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potential elephants in liquid volume, but actual elephants by mass.
Perfectly simple.
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> Measuring a large animal by (liquid) volume and not weight
suggests....
> well, I'm not sure what it suggests, but that's odd.
Some wordplay may be better left unexplained, but it isn't the
exactly the elephant itself being measured in liquid volume above.
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