Re: pounds <9610030250.AA05296@dayton.wright.edu>

[Berry Kercheval <kerch@parc.xerox.com>]

>>>Tom Tweed said:
 > Do you have the quick-n-easy formula to convert miles-per-hour to
 > furlongs-per-fortnight ?  It shows up on chemistry tests around here.

If you have a unix system you can use the "units" program for this:

$ units
you have: mph
you want: furlong/fortnight
        * 2.688000e+03
        / 3.720238e-04

SO to convert mph to fpf, multiply the mph number by 2688.

  --berry

Berry Kercheval :: kerch@parc.xerox.com :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center